evil

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good. countable,uncountable
    — The evils of society include murder and theft.
  2. Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief. countable,uncountable
    — evils which our own misdeeds have wrought
  3. A malady or disease; especially in combination, as in king's evil, colt evil. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — [The disease]Tis call'd the Euill.
形容词 adj.
  1. Intending to harm; malevolent.
    — an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people
  2. Morally corrupt.
    — If something is evil, it is never mandatory.
  3. Unpleasant, foul (of odor, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
    — 1660, John Harding (translator), Paracelsus his Archidoxis, London: W.S., Book 7, “Of an Odoriferous Specifick,” p. 100, An Odoriferous Specifick […] is a Matter that takes away Diseases from the Sick, no otherwise then as Civet drives away the stinck of Ordure by its Odour; for you are to observe, That the Specifick doth permix it self with this evil Odour of the Dung; and the stink of the Dung cannot hurt, no[r] abide there […]
  4. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
    — The owl shrieked at thy birth,—an evil sign;
  5. Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious. obsolete
    — an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop
  6. Undesirable; harmful; bad practice. slang
    — Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.
副词 adv.
  1. wickedly, evilly, iniquitously obsolete
    — O what of Gods then boots it to be borne, / If old Aveugles ſonnes ſo euill heare?
  2. injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way. obsolete
    — And many ſhall follow their pernicious wayes, by reaſon of whom the way of trueth ſhall be euill ſpoken of:
  3. badly, poorly; in an insufficient way. obsolete
    — It went evil with him.

词形变化

eviller comparative eviler comparative more evil comparative evillest superlative evilest superlative most evil superlative evils plural more evil comparative most evil superlative

词汇关系

近义词
nefarious malicious malevolent wicked abandoned arrant bad bad apple bad seed baleful scurrilous baneful base black-hearted dark deleterious demonic depraved despicable detrimental devilish diabolical evil evil-minded facinorous flagitious harmful heinous ill-intentioned ill-natured immoral incorrigible iniquitous iniquous injurious knavish malefic maleficent malign malignant naughty niddering nidering niding nithing no-good peccaminous pernicious reprehensible reprobate satanic scathful sinful sinister sordid sullen ungodly unholy vicious vile villainous wrong
反义词
good angelic benign good-minded just moral righteous well-intentioned
下位词
ominous
衍生词
chaotic evil colt's evil evil be to him who evil thinks evil container evil day evil-doer evil eye evil-eye evilfare evil genius evil hour evilista evility evilize evil laugh evil laughter evilly evil maid attack evil-minded evilness Evil One evil-speaking evil-tempered evil to him that evil thinks evil turn evil twin evilution evilutionary evilutionist evil willer mid-evil moor-evil nonevil pure evil shame be to him who thinks evil of it turning evil unevil axis of evil colt evil evildoer evildoing evilist evilology evilworker fox evil greater evil greater of two evils king's evil lawful evil lesser evil lesser of two evils lousy evil money is the root of all evil necessary evil neutral evil poll evil problem of evil quarter-evil root of all evil snowshoe evil social evil stag-evil sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof the love of money is the root of all evil
相关词
villainy

词源

词源 1
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.
Alternatively from *upélos (“evil”, literally “going over or beyond (acceptable limits)”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo, *h₃ewp- (“down, up, over”).
Cognates
Cognate with Dutch euvel (“evil”), German übel (“bad, evil”), German Low German övel (“evil”), Luxembourgish iwwel (“queasy, nauseous; bad”), Gothic 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌻𐍃 (ubils, “bad, evil”). Compare Old Irish fel (“bad, evil”), from Proto-Celtic *uɸelos, and Hittite 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒍣 (huwapp-ⁱ, “to mistreat, harass”), 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒉺𒀸 (huwappa-, “evil, badness”).
词源 2
From Middle English yvele, yvel, ivel, from Old English yfele (“badly, evilly”), a derivative of the adjective yfel (“bad, evil”). Often reinterpreted as the noun in the later language (as in "to speak evil").
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