evil

Examples

• All

• Junior: To only use my evil genius for good?

  Fiction book (2001)

• It's the Thing that Counts: Evil Santa Game Gifts.

  Academic text (2013)

• Now, if that sounds evil, then good news, your ears are working.

  The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

• Maybe you should put some shorts on if you want to keep fighting evil.

  Mystery Men (1999)

• You are so evil!

  Now Is Good (2012)

• They're not evil anymore!

  Smurfs (2025)

• The new video game is evil with its stunning graphics and gameplay mechanics.

• She played the guitar so well that the performance was just evil in its intensity.

• The car's acceleration is evil; it goes from zero to sixty in just a few seconds.

Synonyms

W

wicked

vsevil

• Slang

14 6.1

Very bad or evil, and in informal speech very impressive

is slang praise for impressive things rather than moral wrongdoing

B

big and bad

vsevil

• Informal

1 6.8

Very large and so strong that it scares or impresses people

is slang praise focusing on being impressive rather than causing fear

Antonyms

O

ordinary

683 1.0

Normal and not special or unusual

M

mediocre

109 4.8

Only average in quality and not very good

Idioms

W

to ward off the evil eye

1 9.9

To protect people from bad luck caused by a jealous look using charms

Compounds

E

evil spirit

• Literature

41 6.8

A ghost or invisible being people believe causes harm and bad luck

N

necessary evil

• Informal

14 5.4

A bad thing you must accept to get a better result

E

evil twin

11 6.8

A person who looks like another but behaves badly

E

evil eye

• Literature

9 7.2

A look that people think causes harm or bad luck

E

evil-looking

1 5.3

A person or thing that looks dangerous and likely to cause harm

S

social evil

1 6.5

A problem in society that harms people or the community

C

chaotic evil

• Jargon

9.1

A person who does cruel, unpredictable acts and ignores rules

E

evil twin

• Jargon

8.1

A fake Wi-Fi network that copies a real one to steal data

K

king's evil

• Archaic

9.9

A disease that makes the glands in the neck swell

How Impressive

evil

• Slang

60 8.0

awesome

968 2.1

epic

191 4.4

impressive

584 3.4

cool

• Informal

∞ 2.2

good

∞ 1.0

nice

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology