archvillain
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- noun
- /ˈɑrkˌvɪlən/
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archvillano
- Director Don Sharp (The Four Feathers) does a nice job of bringing Sax Rohmer's pulpy world to life in The Face of Fu Manchu, the first of five films to feature Christopher Lee as the titular archvillain.
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To be fair, France wasn't obsessed with a rival, an archvillain superfoe, in the Cold War, causing "socialist" to be a not-very-inaudible dog whistle for "communist."
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In many superhero comics, the archvillain often has a complicated backstory that makes them intriguing.
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But the archvillain that I've seen this year...
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Don't you know anything about archvillains?
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Not the somber smile of an archvillain contemplating his sinister machinations; no, this was the smile of someone who knows a devilishly funny joke and is about to let you in on it.
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The archvillain in the movie plotted to take over the world with a powerful device.
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Fans of the series eagerly awaited the return of the archvillain who had been defeated in the last installment.
Synonyms
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A person who goes against others or causes harm
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A person who does very bad things, often the main bad character in a story
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A powerful enemy or thing that causes someone's defeat
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A bad person in stories with very strong powers who fights superheroes
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A person who is someone's main enemy in a long rivalry
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The main opponent someone or a team competes with for a long time
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A person's main enemy who often opposes them
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A person who is the main bad character in a story or film, often in children's stories
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A very powerful evil enemy in stories or legends
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A man who does cruel or wrong things in stories
The main enemy someone has for a long time
A powerful character who opposes the hero and creates major conflict
The main enemy at the end of a story who the heroes must defeat
How Important
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Archvillain joins the prefix arch- ('chief' or 'main') with the familiar word villain ('a bad person'), like in archenemy. So an archvillain is the 'chief' bad guy in a story, the main enemy the hero must face.