Thesaurus:evil

Thesaurus

evil

English

Adjective

Sense: intending to harm

Synonyms

• abandoned    [⇒ thesaurus]
• arrant (dated)
• bad    [⇒ thesaurus]
• bad apple
• bad seed
• baleful
• baneful
• base
• dark    [⇒ thesaurus]
• deleterious
• depraved
• despicable    [⇒ thesaurus]
• detrimental
• devilish
• diabolical
• evil
• flagitious (literary)
• harmful    [⇒ thesaurus]
• ill-intentioned
• ill-natured
• immoral    [⇒ thesaurus]
• incorrigible
• iniquitous
• iniquous (obsolete)
• injurious
• knavish
• malefic
• maleficent
• malevolent
• malicious
• malign
• malignant
• nefarious
• niddering (archaic)
• nidering (archaic)
• niding (archaic)
• nithing (archaic)
• no-good
• pernicious
• reprehensible
• reprobate
• satanic
• scathful
• sinful
• sinister
• sullen    [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
• ungodly
• unholy
• vicious
• vile
• villainous
• wicked
• wrong

Antonyms

• angelic
• benign
• good    [⇒ thesaurus]
• good-minded
• just
• moral
• righteous
• well-intentioned

Hyponyms

• ominous    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• bad    [⇒ thesaurus]
• immoral    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:villainy

Further reading

• “619. evil” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “evil” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.