evil

Significat (Anglès)

Adj

1. Intending to harm; malevolent.
2. Morally corrupt.
3. Unpleasant, foul (of odor, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
4. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
5. (obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
6. (slang) Undesirable; harmful; bad practice.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
2. (countable, uncountable) 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.
3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A malady or disease; especially in combination, as in king's evil, colt evil.

Adv

1. (obsolete) wickedly, evilly, iniquitously
2. (obsolete) injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.
3. (obsolete) badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.

Conceptes

mal

malvat

dolent

👎

malèfic

malèvol

maldat

maliciós

perjudicial

demoníac

maligne

immoralitat

malvestat

iniquitat

diable

roí

satànic

satànica

malesa

vici

diabòlic

Sinònims

bad

👎

wicked

wickedness

harm

vicious

wrong

misfortune

badness

calamity

sin

vile

vice

nasty

malicious

ill

🤢

immoral

harmful

base

sinister

mischief

mean

injury

foul

sinful

disaster

hostile

malevolence

malevolent

cruel

ugly

crime

spiteful

depraved

miserable

spite

poor

devilish

malign

hatred

malignity

evilness

malignant

villainous

criminal

malefic

immorality

diabolical

iniquity

black

fiendish

Traduccions

malo

👎

mauvais

👎

mal

mal

méchant

böse

kwaad

😠

Übel

κακός

cattivo

👎

male

slecht

👎

mau

👎

malvagio

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈiːvɪl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: yvel

Heretat de anglès antic: yfel

Cognat amb Saterfriesisch: eeuwel

Cognat amb neerlandès: euvel

Cognat amb baix alemany: övel

Cognat amb alemany: übel

Cognat amb gòtic: 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌻𐍃

Cognat amb irlandès antic: fel

Cognat amb hitita: 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒍣

In summary

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”).