Definition of Evil

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Definition of Evil

evil

Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.

Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.

Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.

Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good.

Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.

malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.

In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.

A chronic skin affection terminating in an ulcer, most commonly of the face. It is endemic along the Mediterranean, and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc.

Related Definitions:

Affection, Along, Also, An, And, Any, Anything, As, Authority, Bacillus, Bad, Badly, Badness, Beast, Being, Boil, By, Calamitous, Calamity, Called, Chronic, Commonly, Conduct, Conscience, Corrupt, Crop, Deleterious, Depravity, Deviation, Disease, Disposition, Distress, Do, Due, Endemic, Especially, Exhibiting, Evil, Face, From, Good, Happiness, Harm, Having, Heart, Human, Ill, Imposed, In, Injuriously, Injury, Is, It, Kind, King, Lawful, Like, Malady, Manner, Mediterranean, Mischief, Mischievous, Moral, Morally, Most, Nature, Not, Of, Offence, Opposed, Or, Oriental, Phrase, Plant, Poor, Probably, Producing, Properties, Qualities, Scrofula, Sentient, Skin, Sore, Sorrow, Specific, Suffering, Supreme, Tend, Tending, Terminating, The, Threatening, Tidings, To, Ulcer, Unkindly, Vicious, Virtue, Well, Which, Wicked, Wickedness, Will, Worthless, Wrong

Evil Quotations

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Buddha

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Buddha

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
Buddha

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Albert Einstein

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Mark Twain

The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Mark Twain

Evil Translations

evil in French is mauvais, torve
evil in Italian is cattivo
evil in Latin is nocens, pravus, malus peior pessimus, malum
evil in Norwegian is ond, onde
evil in Swedish is ont, elak, led

Quotes