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Definition: Evil |
EvilAdjective1. Morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds". 2. Having the nature of vice. 3. Tending to cause great harm. 4. Having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force". Noun1. Morally objectionable behavior. 2. That which causes harm or destruction or misfortune: "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"- Shakespeare. 3. The quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice: "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "evil" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Evil \E*vil\a. [Old English evel, evil, ifel, uvel, Anglo-Saxon yfel; akin to Old Flemmish, evel, Dutch euvel, Old Saxon & Old High German ubil, German ["u]bel, Gothic ubils, and perhaps to English over.]. (references) |
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Computing | Evil adj. As used by hackers, implies that some system, program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth the bother of dealing with. Unlike the adjectives in the cretinous/losing/brain-damaged series, `evil' does not imply incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of goals or design criteria fatally incompatible with the speaker's. This usage is more an esthetic and engineering judgment than a moral one in the mainstream sense. "We thought about adding a Blue Glue interface but decided it was too evil to deal with." "TECO is neat, but it can be pretty evil if you're prone to typos." Often pronounced with the first syllable lengthened, as /eeee'vil/. Compare evil and rude. Source: Jargon File. |
Slang in 1811 | EVIL. A halter. Cant, Also a wife. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Evil is a very old term for describing that which is morally bad, corrupt, wantonly destructive, selfish, and wicked. It is one half of the duality of good and evil expressed, in some form or another, by all known cultures. By its implication it describes a hierarchy of moral standards with regard to human behaviour; evil being the least desired, while love is the most praised. In a casual or derogatory use, the word "evil" can characterize people and behaviours that are painful, ruinous, or disastrous.
A similar term is malice; a criminal may be considered 'malicious.
In longstanding religious traditions, "evil" is widely considered to be a mystery; that life and its rules are "governed" by an innate benevolence, and behaviour that directly contradicts "good nature" is not understandable in moral and reasoning terms. "Evil" characterises and describes aspects of human beings that deviate from the social, loving, righteous, natures within, which in contrast lead to social strength, and continuing survival, through love. In the forms of malice and selfishness, evil represents the socially-weakening and destructive behaviours that lead directly to a fruitless life and death.
Views on how good and evil are defined lie between two extremes. "Moral absolutism" holds that good and evil are fixed concepts established by God, nature, or some other authority. Moral relativism holds that standards of good and evil are only products of local culture, custom, or prejudice. Moral universalism is a recent humanist term to find a compromise between the unattainable absolutist sense of morality, and the unauthoritative relativist view.
Regardless of the source of their definitions, all human cultures have a set of "natural beliefs" about what things are evil. Natural evils generally include accidental death, disease, and other misfortunes. Moral evils generally include violence, deceit or other destructive behavior toward others, although the same behavior toward "outsiders" of the group may be considered "good." War provides many examples, and "God is always on the winning side." The Unification Church's definition of evil is: "Taking advantage of another person for one's own benefit."
The Abrahamic religions, as well as others, are largely centered around the concepts of good and evil, and this has lead to much religious debate. Many cultures and mythologies personify evil, such as with Satan in Christianity. Others describe evil spirits or demons as the inciters of acts.
Some sociologists, psychologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists have attempted to construct scientific explanations for the development of specific characteristics of an "antisocial" personality type, called the sociopath. The sociopath is typified by extreme self-serving behavior, and a lack of conscience, or inability to empathize with others, to restrain self from, or to feel remorse for, harm personally caused to others. However, a diagnosis of anti-social or sociopath personality disorder (formerly called psychopathic mental disorder), is sometimes criticised as being, at the present time, no more scientific than calling a person evil. What critics perceive to be a moral determination is disguised, they argue, with a scientific-sounding name, but no complete description of a mechanism by which the abnormality can be identified is provided. In other words, critics argue, "sociopaths" are called such, because they are first thought to be "evil" - a determination which itself is not derived by a scientific method.
Many cultures recognize many levels of immoral behavior, from minor vices to major crimes. These beliefs are often encoded into the laws of a society, with methods of judgment and punishment for offenses.
See also:
- Goodness
- Religion
- Philosophy
- Law
- The problem of evil
As used by computer hackers, the jargon term evil implies that some system, program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth the bother of dealing with. Unlike the adjectives in the cretinous/losing/brain-damaged series, evil does not imply incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of goals or design criteria fatally incompatible with the speaker's. This usage is more an esthetic and engineering judgment than a moral one in the mainstream sense. "We thought about adding a Blue Glue interface but decided it was too evil to deal with." "TECO is neat, but it can be pretty evil if you're prone to typos." Often pronounced with the first syllable lengthened, as /eeee'vil/. Compare evil and rude.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Evil."
Synonyms: EvilSynonyms: depraved (adj), harmful (adj), injurious (adj), malefic (adj), malevolent (adj), malign (adj), vicious (adj), wicked (adj), evilness (n), immorality (n), iniquity (n), wickedness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: good (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adversity | Noun: adversity, evil; failure; bad luck, ill luck, evil luck, adverse luck, hard fortune, hard hap, hard luck, hard lot; frowns of fortune; evil dispensation, evil star, evil genius; vicissitudes of life, ups and downs of life, broken fortunes; hard case, hard lines, hard life; sea of troubles; peck of troubles; hell upon earth; slough of despond. |
Bane | Noun: bane, curse; evil; hurtfulness; (badness); painfulness; (cause of pain); scourge; (punishment); damnosa hereditas; white elephant. |
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Crosswords: Evil |
| English words defined with "evil": Evil eye ♦ most evil ♦ The evil one. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "evil": Evil Empire ♦ Hill of Evil Counsel ♦ Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "evil": Yvel. (references) |
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Screenplays | Adam and Evil! (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) Your evil says you cannot be evil, and I shall suffer for it no longer (Interview With the Vampire; writing credit: Anne Rice) I mean, that just screws up my whole idea of good and evil and God. (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.) I prefer to be called Evil Genius (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders) He is drawing all evil to him. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) | |
Lyrics | And it made a [sic] evil hiss ("The Devil Went Down to Georgia"; performing artist: Charlie Daniels Band) But sometimes my people be acting like they evil (Fantastic Voyage; performing artist: Coolio) almost evil (Butterfly; performing artist: Crazy Town) Save me from these evil deeds (Criminal; performing artist: Fiona Apple) Love is the only evil seed that could sever (I Cry; performing artist: Ja Rule) | |
Clever | If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. (references; author: Woody Allen) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Resident Evil (2002) House of Evil (1974) Seeds of Evil (1974) A Name for Evil (1973) The Evil Touch (1973) | |
Song Titles | Some Folks Are Truly Evil (performing artist: LiR) Evil Ways (performing artist: Santana) | |
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 | Northwest Coast Indians deep-sixing bottle used as survey mark Bottle set by party of George Davidson in 1852 Smallpox came after surveyors left Indians felt bottle had evil spirits, dug up, and threw away. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | A Malaysian bomoh prepares a herbal offering to ward off evil spirits. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by J. Dauth.. |
 | Lame Deer (vicinity), Montana. Skull in front of Indian steam bath on Cheyenne Indian Tongue River Reservation to keep evil spirits away, a belief which is part of their "medicine". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The way of good & evil / Drawn & published by John Hailer, Northempton (sic) Co., Penna. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | We will cut off all roads to the evil enemy, he will not escape from this noose!] / Kukryniksy. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Chas. H. Yale and Sidney R. Ellis' The evil eye, or The further funny freaks of Nid and the continued comical contortions of Nod. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Evil system of colonialism and imperialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely come to its end with the complete emancipation of the Black people. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Good luck, abrakadabra, against the evil eye. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | They who fear when they ought not to fear, such men, embracing false doctrines, enter the evil path ... Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Speak No Evil" by Toby Cummings Commentary: "Just a picture a caught when the blinds on my window were down and the sun was streaming through.." | "Hear, see, speak no evil" by Stevan Sheets Commentary: "My buddy kory hearing no, seeing no, speaking no evil." |
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 | Evil mystery sci-fi style typical of a film soundtrack. | | Evil man cackling . |
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| Author | Quotation |
Blaise Pascal | Evil is easy, and has infinite forms. |
Callimachus | Great book, great evil. |
Chilo | Speak no evil of the dead. |
Euripides | If gods do evil then they are not gods. |
Jean de La Fontaine | We believe no evil till the evil's done. |
Menander | Evil communications corrupt good manner. |
Ovid | An evil life is a kind of death. |
St. Augustine | The greatest evil is physical pain. |
William Shakespeare | Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | An oath, moreover, has been taken, as well on our part as on the art of the barons, that all these conditions aforesaid shall be kept in good faith and without evil intent. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | To tell people they may provide for themselves, by erecting a new legislative, when by oppression, artifice, or being delivered over to a foreign power, their old one is gone, is only to tell them, they may expect relief when it is too late, and the evil is past cure. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Council shall advise how the evil effects attendant upon such manufacture can be prevented, due regard being had to the necessities of those Members of the League which are not able to manufacture the munitions and implements of war necessary for their safety. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | He could be no judge, however, of the evil he was holding cheap |
Lays of Mystery Imagination and Humour | Carroll, Lewis | All birds of evil omen there Flood with rich Notes the tainted air, The witless wanderer to snare |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Therefore, as a man who has not thought and philosophised in vain, I seek no vengeance, plot no evil against thee |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The moon was an evil genius on this plain |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Evil company on earth is so noxious that even the plants, as if by instinct, withdraw from the company of whatsoever is deadly or hurtful to them |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Then be your eyes the witness of their evil. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. |
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Children | Philippines | In September a former NPA member, recruited at age 13 and carrying a weapon by the time she was 15, told reporters that the NPA had deceived her into believing that the Government was "nothing but evil." A 12-year-old former NPA member said that he cooperated with the NPA against his will because "I feared for my family, they said they would skin them alive." According to domestic and international NGO's, the MILF recruited children as young as 12 years of age to serve as reserve forces. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Hong Kong | Statements by Chief Executive C.H. Tung in May and June that the group was "no doubt an evil cult" and that the Government would not let the Falun Gong "abuse Hong Kong's freedoms and tolerance to affect public peace and order" in Hong Kong or in the mainland prompted concern about the possibility of the Government taking action against the group, such as by enacting "anti-cult" legislation. (references) |
Economic History | Nigeria | Most people argue that whatever benefits the reform was intended to achieve, have been wiped out by the very absence of appropriate equipment and functional systems at the ports which is fueling official corruption - the evil the reform is intended to eradicate. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors. The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy; it required ten of them to raise a rock or a riot that one of the heroes of the Trojan war could have raised with ease. Homer never tires of sneering at "men who live in these degenerate days," which is perhaps why they suffered him to beg his bread -- a marked instance of returning good for evil, by the way, for if they had forbidden him he would certainly have starved. |
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Al Hunt | Bob, Chairman Graham offered a very measured and long-term battle against the axis of evil. And I'll tell you, he does not think any action against Iraq will be a cakewalk, quite the contrary. |
Gotham Chopra | Nobody is born evil. |
James Dobson | Well, again, I'm not an authority on end times in that sense. But I sure see a lot of evil. And it is certainly out there. |
Jon Stewart | I made of evil people who took money from their workers and stole it. And then after they stole it, went I don't know what happened. I stole money. |
Judy Sheindlin | Right. The tabloids will take a story, a lovely story, that we bought a home, and it's a home that we never dreamed we would own, and they made something evil out of it. |
Lynne Cheney | It's always hard to have to tell little kids that there are evil people in the world. You know, you try to keep that news from them, I think, for as a long as you can, sort of nurture them and help them grow up and feel safe and loved. |
Margaret Thatcher | This is evil. The things that are going on in Kuwait are terrifying. They are brutal. And most people understand that evil has to be stopped. Either he withdraws, or the military option has to be used. |
Robert Wagner | Dr. Evil, while you were in space, I created a way for us to make huge sums of legitimate money and still maintain the ethics and the business practices of an evil organization. I have turned us into a talent agency, the Hollywood Talent Agency. |
Rush Limbaugh | But Americans are all evil, white supremacist Caucasians. |
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John Adams | 1797-1801 | If a mode can be devised by the wisdom of Congress to prevent the resources of the United States from being converted into the means of annoying our trade, a great evil will be prevented. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Yet the nations pursuing peace will not be exempt from all evil. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Nothing short of a radical change in the action of the Government upon the subject can, in my opinion, remedy the evil. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | With an experience thus suggestive and cheering, the policy of my Administration will not be controlled by any timid forebodings of evil from expansion. |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | But the evil has come with the good, and much fine gold has been corroded. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | This trial comes at a moment when man's power to achieve good or to inflict evil surpasses the brightest hopes and the sharpest fears of all ages. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | The American people have heard too much about how terrible our mistakes, how evil our deeds, and how misguided our purposes. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We are faced with the most evil enemy mankind has known in his long climb from the swamp to the stars. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I know that in the face of such evil, it is hard for the people in the Middle East to go forward. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Terror cells and outlaw regimes building weapons of mass destruction are different faces of the same evil. |
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| "Evil" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 62.34% of the time. "Evil" is used about 1,570 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 62.34% | 979 | 7,475 |
| Noun (singular) | 37.53% | 589 | 10,783 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.13% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,570 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "evil". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Birsha | N/A | Biblical | An evil |
| Raamah | N/A | Biblical | Some sort of evil |
| Raamiah | N/A | Biblical | Evil |
| Tarea | N/A | Biblical | Doing evil |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "evil": a necessary evil ♦ aleppo evil ♦ Axis of evil ♦ be evil ♦ become evil ♦ crying evil ♦ deliver us from evil ♦ do evil ♦ evil act ♦ evil and rude ♦ Evil biseye ♦ evil courses ♦ evil deed ♦ evil doer ♦ evil Empire ♦ evil event ♦ evil eye ♦ evil genius ♦ evil hour ♦ evil inclination ♦ evil nature ♦ evil person ♦ evil powers ♦ evil repute ♦ Evil speaking ♦ evil spirit ♦ evil thing ♦ evil tongue ♦ evil tongues ♦ evil ways ♦ fall on evil days ♦ Fox evil ♦ give smb. the evil eye ♦ have the luck of the evil ♦ Hill of Evil Counsel ♦ in an evil hour ♦ kings evil ♦ King's Evil ♦ lessen an evil ♦ money is the root of all evil ♦ most evil ♦ of evil report ♦ perform an evil deed ♦ plan evil ♦ poll evil ♦ Psychology of evil ♦ put the evil eye ♦ render good for evil ♦ repay good with evil ♦ return good for evil ♦ social evil ♦ speak evil of ♦ the evil eye ♦ the evil one ♦ the lesser evil ♦ the powers of evil ♦ the social evil ♦ think evil ♦ think evil thoughts ♦ tree of the knowledge of good and evil ♦ without the evil eye. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "evil": evil-a, evil-boding, evil-disposed, evil-doer, evil-doers, evil-doing, evil-eye, Evil-eyed, Evil-favored, Evil-favoredness, evil-intentioned, evil-looking, Evil-merodach, Evil-minded, Evil-mindedness, evil-natured, evil-omened, evil-smelling, Evil-speaking, evil-tasting, evil-tempered, evil-wagging, evil-wishing. | |
Ending with "evil": good-vs-evil, moor-evil, Stag-evil, versus-evil. | |
Containing "evil": witch-evil-woman. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "evil"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | e keqe (affliction, bad, harm, hopeless, ill, pest, pestilence, wrong), zemërlig (malevolent), sëmundje (affection, ailment, canker, complaint, disease, disorder, distemper, ill, illness, infirmity, sickness), mëkatar (evil doer, Peccable, peccant, sinful, sinner, transgressor, unrighteous, wrongdoer), mëkat (crime, error, frailty, peccancy, pity, sin, transgression, trespass), i lig (bad, basilisk, catty, despiteful, diabolic, diabolical, evil-minded, felon, godless, iniquitous, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, nefarious, perverse, sinister, spiteful, vicious, wicked), i keq (bad, bad tempered, baleful, blinking, bodeful, cancerous, catty, cheesy, crook, dark, defective, dubious, heavy, ill, ill disposed, ill natured, ill-conditioned, lousy, low-grade, malign, malignant, nasty, naughty, perverse, poor, punk, shady, shoddy, sinister, ugly, vicious, vile, wicked), i dëmshëm (baneful, damnific, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, harmful, injurious, malefic, maleficent, malign, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, unwholesome), fatkeqësi (accident, adversity, bane, calamity, casualty, disaster, distress, doom, fatality, ill luck, infelicity, misadventure, misery, misfortune, plague, teen, tribulation, woe), dëmtues (defector, deleterious, detrimental, enemy, harmful, injurious, pernicious). (various references) | |
Arabic | سو (ill, offence), شر (disaster, harm), فاسد (abusive, bad, corrupt, decadent, decayed, decomposed, degenerated, depraved, disintegrated, false, foul, immoral, incorrect, infected, invalid, null, perverse, pervertible, putrid, rogue, rotten, spoiled, unsound, vain, vicious, void, wicked, wrong), كارثة (blow, calamity, casualty, catastrophe, disaster, fatal, fate, grief, holocaust, plague, scourge, shambles), ملعون (abominable, accursed, cursed, damn, damned, detestable, execrable, god-damn, stupid, wicked), لعين (abominable, accursed, bloody, cursed, damned, execrable, wicked), لئيم (base, depraved, low, mean, miscreant), سوء (ill, mal, malady, mis), طالح (vicious, wicked), خبيث (bad, black-hearted, dark, evil-minded, malevolent, malicious, malignant, pernicious, rake, roue, sly, vicious, viperous, virulent, vulpine, wicked, wily), إثم (debt, delinquency, error, guilt, guiltiness, iniquity, misdeed, offence, sin, transgression, viciousness, wrongdoing), رجيم (damned, regimen), ردئ (bad, base, bastard, bum, coarse, common, doggie, fearful, fiendish, foul, ill, inferior, nice, paltry, poor, poorness, putrid, second rate, slim, sour, tacky, tinpot, unhealthy, vicious, villainous, watery), شرير (bad, black, black-hearted, dark, devil, diabolic, diabolical, ill, iniquitous, maleficent, malicious, malign, nasty, naughty, rascally, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rude, sinister, spiteful, unholy, vicious, wicked), شر (abuse, iniquity, mal, malignity, perversity, viciousness, wickedness). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | грях (error, frailty, guilt, iniquity, peccancy, sin, transgression, trespass, wrongdoing), вреден (adverse, bad, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, harmful, ill, inimical, injurious, maleficent, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, prejudicial), очеваден (apparent, glaring, outrageous, vicious), нещастие (accident, adversity, affliction, buffet, desolation, distress, fatality, hard luck, infelicity, misery, misfortune, sorrow, stroke, trouble, unhappiness), зъл (bad, bad tempered, baleful, blackhearted, ill, ill disposed, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, malign, malignant, mean, scratchy, sinister, snaky, stuffy, sulphurous, swart, tricky, venomous, vicious, waspish, wicked), зло (abuse, bad, cancer, curse, disaster, harm, ill, mischief, ulcer, wrong), злина (blackness, ill, wrong), лош (bad, chronic, cobbler, fie-fie, foul, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-conditioned, inferior, loose, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malign, mean, miscreant, miserable, nasty, naughty, poor, rough, rugged, severe, shoddy, sinister, sorry, thumping, ugly, vicious, wicked, wrong), бедствие (adversity, affliction, calamity, curse, disaster, distress), пагубен (baleful, baneful, calamitous, damnific, detrimental, fatal, fateful, homicidal, malign, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, ruinous, subversive). (various references) | |
Chinese | 邪惡 (sinister, vicious, wicked), 罪恶, 惡 (nauseated, to hate, to loathe), 歹 (bad, wicked), 弊病 (disadvantage, drawback, malady, malpractice), 害 (calamity, harm, to cause trouble to, to do harm to), 否 (clogged, not, to deny, to negate). (various references) | |
Czech | zlo (evildoing, malefice, wrong), zlý (bad, dirty, evil-minded, ferocious, maleficent, malign, mean, niddering, rank, severe, unholy, vicious, wicked), špatný (bad, black, defective, faulty, ill, improper, inferior, low, poor, weak, wicked, worthless, wrong). (various references) | |
Dutch | kwaad opzet (evil intent, ill-willed intent), boos opzet (evil intent, ill-willed intent), As van het kwaad (Axis of evil). (various references) | |
Farsi | مضر (Adverse, Bad, Baneful, Derogatory, Foe, Harmful, Inadvisable, Inimical, Injurious, Insanitary, Nocuous, Noxious, Obnoxious, Pernicious, Unwholesome), زیان اور (Bad, Deleterious, Ill, Malignant, Nocuous, Pernicious), زیان (Damage, Detriment, Disadvantage, Disservice, Drawback, Harm, Hurt, Ill, Loss, Scathe, Washout), شریرانه , بدی (Disservice, Vice), بد (Amiss, Bad, Dreadful, Ill, Junky, Rum, Unfavorable). (various references) | |
Finnish | pahuus (badness, wickedness), paha (bad, naughty, serious, severe, wicked), ilkeä (bad, loathsome, malicious, mischievous, nasty, naughty, vicious, wicked), häijy (bad, malicious, naughty). (various references) | |
French | mauvais. (various references) | |
German | übel (bad, bad (worse, badly, disreputable, evilly, foul, foully, ill, illness, malady, malignancy, nasty, nauseated, nauseous, noxious, objectionable, offensive, offensively, queasy, rank, sick, ugly, ulcer, undesirable, unholy, unsavory, unsavoury, vile, wicked), schlecht (Amiss, bad, bad (worse, badly, chronic, corrupt, decayed, faulty, foul, hard, ill, inferior, lamentable, lamentably, low, maladjusted, miserable, nasty, off, poor, poorly, sick, stale, terribly, uneasy, unhealthy, unkind, unpalatable, unsatisfactory, unsavory, unsavoury, unsuitably, wicked, wrong), böse (angry, bad, baddie, baleful, balefully, black, black-hearted, cross, crossly, dark, evil person, ferocious, harm, mad, malign, miserable, nastily, nasty, naughty, poor, sinister, sore, unholy, venomous, vicious, villain, villainous, wicked, wicked person). (various references) | |
Greek | κακόσ (awful, bad, ill, maleficent, mischievous, naughty, sinistrous, spiteful, vicious, wicked), κακός (bad, wicked), κακό (cocoa, ill, malefaction, maleficence, mischief, wrong), σατανικός (devilish, wicked). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מרושע (diabolic, iniquitous, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, nefarious, sinister, unholy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked), פגע (accident, affliction, incident, mishap, plague, trouble), עוון (crime, iniquity, misdemeanor, offence, sin, vice), בישות (badness, wickedness), רוע (badness, malice, vice, wickedness), רשע (evildoing, harm, iniquity, malignant, unholy, wicked, wrong), רעה (harm, wickedness), רע (bad, harm, inferior, maleficence, noxious, repugnant, trouble, unkind, wicked, wickedness, woe, wrong), צרה (misfortune, sorrow, spot, trouble, woe), נגע (blow, leprosy, lesion, pestilence, plague, punishment, scurf, stroke, trouble). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gonoszság (depravity, evildoing, evil-doing, iniquity, maleficence, mischief, mischievousness, monstrosity, monstruosity, viciousness, villainy, wickedness). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kejahatan (banditry, crime, criminality, harm), kebobrokan (collapse), kebatilan, durjana (wicked), batil (copper bowl, false, invalid, plate, tray). (various references) | |
Italian | cattivo (airy-fairy, bad, foul, frolic, frolicsome, ill, ill natured, mad, malicious, miserable, nasty, naughty, perverse, petulant, poor, spiteful, unkind, vicious, wicked). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 邪悪 (wicked). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | あくへい (abuse, vice), よこしま (wicked), やく (about, advantage, approximately, bad luck, being beneficial, benefit, disaster, gain, misfortune, position, profit, role, service, some, to bake, to be envious of, to be jealous of, to grill, use), やくなん (calamity, misfortune), イービル , イーブル , あく (harsh taste, lye, puckery juice, to be less crowded, to become empty, to become open, to dawn, to open, wickedness), じゃあく (wicked), あだ (enemy, enmity, feud, foe, frivolous, futile, grudge, harm, invasion, revenge, ruin, transient, vain), がいあく (harm, injury), あた (enemy, enmity, feud, foe, grudge, harm, invasion, revenge, ruin), かがい (assault, damaging, extracurricular, harm, heavy taxation, mischief, numerically inferior force, perigone, prostitution quarter, red-light district, small military force, taxation, violence), かたき (enemy, enmity, feud, foe, grudge, harm, invasion, revenge, rival, ruin), ふぜん (imperfect, incomplete, mischief, partial, sin, vice), ひが (erroneous, he or she or they and I or we, untrue), きょう (all, and, as well as, assist, bad harvest, bad luck, both, Buddhist scriptures, coerce, co-operation, correct, disaster, entertainment, exposing, Hungary, including, interest, lance, long ages, neither, offer, pleasure, plural ending, present, save, serve, submit, supply, sutra, temporary home, this day, threat, threaten, today, together with, turmoil, wickedness, with), マレフィック (malefic, malevolent, malign), あし (bulrush, ditch reed, foot, gait, leg, pace, reed). (various references) | |
Korean | 악. (various references) | |
Manx | olk (bad, bad-hearted, bad-looking, ill, injury, lousy, mischief, morally wrong, naughtiness, truculence, unfavourable, vice, vicious, wicked), drogh (abusive, bad, badness, misfortune, unenviable, wicked). (various references) | |
Norwegian | onde, ond. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | evilay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | prevaricação (forfeit, maladministration, malfeasance, prevarication), perverso (cantankerous, damnable, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, ill-conditioned, malicious, malignant, mischievous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, perverse, sinful, unjust, unnatural, unrighteous, vicious, vile, villainous, viperous, wicked), pecado (offence, offense, peccancy, shiver, sin, transgression, wrongdoing), miserável (abject, costive, dismal, godforsaken, logy, meager, misbegotten, miscreant, miserable, miserly, paltry, picayune, pimping, poky, poor, rascally, scaly, scoundrel, scurvy, skinflint, sordid, squalid, wretch, wretched), mau (bad, bum, dark, graceless, ill, ill-conditioned, ill-favored, ill-favoured, malignant, mischievous, miserable, nasty, perverse, poor, punk, sinful, two-bit, unjust, unrighteous, venomous, vicious, vile, villainous, wrong), malvado (bad, black-hearted, candle-wick, felon, felonious, flagitious, heavy, ill-conditioned, malicious, mean, mean-spirited, mischievous, nasty, nefarious, perverse, reprobate, scoundrelly, vicious, villain, wicked, wrong), mal (badly, bale, barely, blight, hardly, harm, hurt, ill, ill-treat, just, little, malady, scarcely, sickness, teen, teener, wrong, wrongdoing), infortúnio (casualty, disaster, lucklessness, mischance, misfortune, scathe, sorrow, woe), infeliz (devoted, disastrous, hapless, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious, infelicitous, jonah, luckless, sorrowful, unblessed, unfortunate, unhappy, unluckily, unlucky, unsuccessful, wretch, wretched), desastre (accident, blow, casualty, debacle, misfortune, smash). (various references) | |
Romanian | rãu (Amiss, atrocious, awkward, awry, bad, bad for, bad-hearted, badly, baleful, black, bum, corrupt, depraved, flagitious, foul, haggish, harm, ill, immoral, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, mischief, mischievous, miserable, naughty, perverse, rough, scoundrel, sickness, thin, unspeakable, useless, venomous, vicious, vile, wicked, wretched, wrong), nenorocire (accident, affliction, bale, bane, blow, calamity, catastrophe, curse, disaster, distress, ill, misadventure, misery, misfortune, need, reverse, rod, scourge, sore, trouble), nefast (bad, baleful, baneful, black letter, poisonous, poisonously), necaz (annoyance, bother, cankerworm, care, cross, difficulty, distress, furnace, gall, grief, grudge, handful, infliction, mess, mischief, need, pain, resentment, Ruth, sorrow, spite, suffering, trouble, upset, vexation, worriment), dãunãtor (bad, baleful, hurtful, injurious, maleficent, malign, mischievous, noisome, pest, pestilent, pestilential, prejudicially, sinister), cu rãutate (archly, malevolently, maliciously). (various references) | |
Russian | грех (peccancy, sin, transgression, trespass, wrongdoing), несчастье (adversity, affliction, disaster, distress, fatality, infelicity, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, teen, tribulation, unhappiness, woe, woes), злой (bad tempered, bad-tempered, blackhearted, black-hearted, cattish, evil-minded, fractious, ill disposed, ill natured, ornery, puckish, scathing, squinteyed, surly, unkind, vicious, vixenish), злонамеренный (dolose, evil-minded, malicious), зло злой, зло (harm, ill, mischief, wrong), болезнь (affection, ailment, disease, illness, malady, sickness, trouble), бедствие (bale, bete noire, calamity, cancer, catastrophe, curse, disaster, distress, plague, tribulation), порочный (perverse, unholy, vicious), пагубный (baleful, calamitous, damned, damnific, fatal, harmful, hurtful, malefic, maleficent, malign, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial), дурной (bad, blackhearted, black-hearted, dark, ill, ill-conditioned, lame brain, naughty). (various references) | |
Scottish | olc (bad, mischief, miserable, nasty, poor, wicked, wickedness), lochd (a fault, blemish, defect, harm, mischief), droch (bad, evil deed, evil; precedes n. and a. : droch-bheart, miserable, nasty, poor), donas (evil one, mischief, the devil), dona (bad, miserable, nasty, poor), don, cron (blame, defect, fault, harm, mischief), éiceart (injustice). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zlo (bad, harm, ill, misdoing, qualm, sick), zao (bad, goblin, ill, ill disposed, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, mean, nefarious, ornery, wicked), opak (blackhearted, malefic, malignant, nefarious, perishing, pernicious, severe, ugly, wicked), guba (leprosy, mange). (various references) | |
Spanish | terrible (awful, devastating, dire, dirty, dread, dreadful, eerie, fearful, ghastly, gruesome, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrid, jolly, lousy, lurid, outrageous, splitting, terrible, terror, unholy, wicked), perverso (abandoned, debauched, perverse, perverted, unnatural, vicious, wicked), perversidad (iniquity, perverseness, perversity, viciousness), malvado (flagitious, no good, tacky, tough, villain, wicked), malo (Amiss, bad, black-hearted, bum, difficult, disagreeable, disgusting, erroneous, evil-wishing, hard, ill, inconvenient, lower, mischievous, miserable, mistaken, nasty, naughty, ornery, poor, punk, sick, tacky, tough, troubled, unsound, villain, wicked, wretched, wrong), maldad (badness, devilry, evildoing, malice, meanness, sinfulness, wickedness), mal (Amiss, badly, cowardice, damage, disease, hardily, hardly, harm, hurt, ill, illness, in a bad way, infertility, inhumanity, lot, malady, naughtily, poorly, trouble, troubled, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongly), horrible (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, appalling, awful, bleak, dire, direful, dirty, dismal, dread, dreary, formidably, foul, frightful, ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrid, lousy, lurid, moldy, mouldy, nasty, shocking, stinking, terrible, terror, vile, wicked), funesto (baleful, baneful, black, disastrous, fatal, fell, ill fated, pernicious, unfortunate), diablo (daemon, demon, deuce, deuces, devil, devils, the devil). (various references) | |
Swedish | ont (disease, harm, ill, pain, trouble), led (articulation, channel, file, joint, knuckle, line, link, nasty, pass, term, tired, trail, way, weary), elak (angry, bad, blackhearted, cantankerous, cattish, catty, caustic, dark, evel, horrid, ill, ill natured, malicious, malignant, mean, nasty, naughty, troublesome, ugly, unkind, venomous, wicked). (various references) | |
Thai | ชั่วร้าย (black, egregious, fiendish, hellish, rapacious, sinful), สิ่งที่ชั่วร้าย, ปีศาจ (fiend, goblin). (various references) | |
Turkish | kötülük (badness, blackness, darkness, devilry, disservice, enormity, harm, iniquity, malfeasance, malice, malignity, misdeed, misdoing, perversity, spitefulness, vice, viciousness, villainy, wickedness), şanssız (distressed, down on one's luck, fortuneless, hapless, ill fated, ill-starred, inauspicious, luckless, out of luck, star-crossed, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unsuccessful, untoward), belâ (affliction, bore, calamity, curse, damnation, darned, ill, misfortune, nuisance, pest, plague, rock, scourge, tribulation, trouble), dert (affliction, bore, bother, botheration, complaint, cross, distress, dolor, dolour, fear, grief, grievance, headache, heartache, ill, mopes, nuisance, pain, pip, plague, pother, rock, scourge, solicitudes, sorrow, suffering, throe, trial, tribulation, trouble, woe, worry), fena (angrily, bad, badly, foul, ill, malicious, miserable, nasty, poor, poorly, sinful, sinister, unholy, vicious, wicked), günah (fault, iniquity, sin, sinful, transgression, trespass, wrongdoing), aksi (adverse, awkward, bad tempered, bilious, bloody minded, cantankerous, contra, contra-, contrary, counter, crabbed, crabby, cross, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, doggish, dour, fractious, fretful, Froward, gruff, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, inverse, negatory, opposite, peevish, perverse, petulant, recalcitrant, refractory, reverse, shirty, snappish, snuffy, spleenful, spleenish, stroppy, stubborn, sullen, surly, tart, testy, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, wrongheaded), kötü (bad, badly, black, chintzy, devilish, dread, dreadfull, feeble, fierce, grotty, harmful, haunted, hedge, hellish, horrible, horrid, ill, indifferent, iniquitous, lousy, malign, mis-, miscreant, miserable, nasty, nefarious, obnoxious, off, offensive, poor, poorly, portentous, purple, rough, seamy, shady, sinister, sticky, stinking, ugly, unhallowed, unrighteous, vicious, wicked, worse, wrongful), zararlı (baleful, baneful, corruptive, deleterious, derogatory, destructive, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, insalubrious, malefic, maleficent, mischievous, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, prejudicial, unhealthy, unwholesome), kem (bad, haunted, sinister), musibet (calamity, pest, tribulation), tâlihsiz (cursed, disastrous, down on one's luck, grief-stricken, hapless, ill fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious, infelicitous, star-crossed, unfortunate, unlucky), uğursuz (accursed, accurst, baleful, black, bloody, demon, dire, fateful, hoodoo, ill fated, ill-omened, inauspicious, ominous, portentous, sinister, unlucky, untoward), uğursuzluk (bad luck, hex, hoodoo, ill luck, ill omen, inauspiciousness, jinx), zarar (average, bad, cost, damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, encroachment, forfeit, harm, havoc, hurt, injury, loss, maleficence, mischief, prejudice, ravage, sacrifice, scathe, wreckage), günahkâr (erring, evil doer, fallen, guilty, reprobate, sacrilegious, sinful, sinner, transgressor, trespasser, ungodly, unrighteous, wicked, wrongdoer). (various references) | |
Turkmen | um, iзigaralyk (envy), iзigara (envious), hyrsyz (malicious, spiteful), hyяanat (harm, malice). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шкідливий (adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cancerous, cankerous, damnific, deleterious, destructive, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, insanitary, mischievous, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pestiferous, pestilent, sickly, unhealthy, wrongful), гріх (debt, guilt, lapse, peccancy, sin, transgression, wrong doing), огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, grim, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), злоба (animosity, devilry, spleen), зло (bale, ill, wrong), злий (bad, bad tempered, bitter, blackhearted, carping, ill, ill natured, puckish, snappish, snotty, vicious, wicked), лихий (blackhearted, naughty), біда (affliction, bale, calamity, cancer, catastrophe, mischief, misfortune, need), порок (blur, defect, sin, taint, vice, wickedness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xấu (baleful, deplorable, ill-favoured, ill-looking, punk, shabby, sorry, ugly, unbeautiful, unpleasant, wicked, wrong), tội lỗi (delinquency, sin), cái xấu, điều tai hại, điều ác (evil-doing, malefaction, mischief), ác (malevolent, scathing, smashing, unkind). (various references) | |
Welsh | drwg (bad, frolic, frolicsome, harm, hurt, miserable, nasty, naughty, petulant, poor, wicked), camlwrw (dosorder, forfeit), bariaeth (grief, wrath), anras (misfortune), annifai, anhylaw (unhandy, unskillful, unwieldy), andras (curse, deuce, devil), adwythig (baneful, cruel, malignant, sick, sore), adwyth (illness, misfortune). (various references) | |
