evil

Betekenis (Engels)

1. Intending to harm; malevolent.
2. Morally corrupt.
3. Unpleasant, foul (of odour, 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.

bad

👎

do wrong

evil person

bad thing

stroke

ill-boding

wicked things

enormous

enormity

great fall

don’t

contrary to recognized behaviour

deadly

injury harm

Evil

bad spirit

cacodemonical

evilminded

bad to the core

effect of an imprecation

bad deed

bad omen

do evil

Frequentie

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ˈiːvɪl/

From Middle English yvel, evel, ivel, uvel, from Old English yfel, from Proto-West Germanic *ubil, from Proto-Germanic *ubilaz (compare Saterland Frisian eeuwel, Dutch euvel, Low German övel, German übel, Gothic 𐌿𐌱𐌹𐌻𐍃 (ubils, “bad, evil”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂up(h₁)élos, a deverbal derivative of *h₂wep(h₁)-, *h₂wop(h₁)- (“treat badly”). Compare Old Irish fel (“bad, evil”), from Proto-Celtic *uɸelos, and Hittite 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒍣 (huwapp-ⁱ, “to mistreat, harass”), 𒄷𒉿𒀊𒉺𒀸 (huwappa-, “evil, badness”). 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”).