Meaning

6 senses
  1. Intending to harm; malevolent.

    an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people

    böse, übel

    злойzloj

    злийzlyj

  2. Morally corrupt.

    If something is evil, it is never mandatory.

    Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?

    поро́чныйporóčnyj

    morally bad or wrong

  3. Unpleasant, foul (of odor, taste, mood, weather, etc.).

    1937, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, London: Macmillan, Part V, “Mazar-i-Sherif,” p. 282, It was an evil day, sticky and leaden: Oxiana looked as colourless and suburban as India.

  4. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.

  5. (slang)Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.

    Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.

  6. (obsolete)Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.

    an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop

Examples

652 sentences
  1. Tom doesn't know the difference between good and evil.

    Том не знає різниці між добром і злом.

    ruТом не знает разницы между добром и злом.

    deTom kennt den Unterschied zwischen Gut und Böse nicht.

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  2. Money is the root of all evil.

    Гроші — корінь зла.

    ruДеньги — корень зла.

    deGeld ist der Ursprung allen Übels.

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  3. You're an evil person.

    Ти лиха людина.

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  4. Tom is an evil genius.

    Том - злий геній.

    ruТом - злой гений.

    deTom ist ein Genie des Bösen.

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  5. Tom is evil.

    Том злий.

    ruТом злой.

    deTom ist böse.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
intending to harm:
Русский
By meaning 2
intending to harm:
morally corrupt:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
intending to harm:

Origin

From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel, from Old English yfel, from Proto-West Germani

From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel, from Old English yfel, from Proto-West Germanic *ubil, from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂up(h₁)élos, a deverbal derivative of *h₂wep(h₁)-, *h₂wop(h₁)- (“treat badly”). See -le for the supposed suffix.

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