Evil vs. Wicked
Difference Between Evil and Wicked
Eviladjective
Morally bad or wrong; wicked
an evil tyrant.Wickedadjective
Evil or immoral
"this wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred" (Winston S. Churchill).Eviladjective
Causing ruin, injury, or pain; harmful
the evil effects of a poor diet.Wickedadjective
Playfully malicious or mischievous
a wicked prank.a critic's wicked wit.Eviladjective
Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous
evil omens.Wickedadjective
Severe and distressing
a wicked cough.a wicked gash.wicked driving conditions.Eviladjective
Bad or blameworthy by report; infamous
an evil reputation.Wickedadjective
Highly offensive; obnoxious
a wicked stench.Eviladjective
Characterized by anger or spite; malicious
an evil temper.Wickedadjective
(Slang) Strikingly good, effective, or skillful
a wicked curve ball.a wicked imitation.Evilnoun
The quality of being morally bad or wrong; wickedness.
Wickedadverb
Used as an intensive
"a ... body suit, which she describes as wicked comfortable" (Nathan Cobb).Evilnoun
That which causes harm, misfortune, or destruction
a leader's power to do both good and evil.Wickedadjective
Evil or mischievous by nature.
Evilnoun
An evil force, power, or personification.
Wickedadjective
(slang) Excellent; awesome; masterful.
That was a wicked guitar solo, bro!Evilnoun
Something that is a cause or source of suffering, injury, or destruction
the social evils of poverty and injustice.Wickedadjective
Having a wick.
a two-wicked lampEviladverb
In an evil manner.
Wickedadjective
Active; brisk.
Eviladjective
Intending to harm; malevolent.
an evil plot to kill innocent peopleWickedadjective
(Alternative form of) wick (Etymology 3 Adjective), as applying to inanimate objects only.
Eviladjective
Morally corrupt.
Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?Wickedadjective
Infested with maggots.
Eviladjective
Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
Wickedadverb
Very, extremely.
The band we went to see the other night was wicked loud!Eviladjective
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
Wickednoun
People who are wicked.
Eviladjective
(obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil cropWickedverb
simple past tense and past participle of wick
Eviladjective
undesirable; harmful; bad practice
Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.Wickedadjective
morally bad in principle or practice
Evilnoun
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
The evils of society include murder and theft.Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control.Wickedadjective
having committed unrighteous acts;
a sinful personEvilnoun
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.
Wickedadjective
intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality;
severe paina severe case of flua terrible coughunder wicked fire from the enemy's gunsa wicked coughEvilnoun
(obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).
Wickedadjective
morally bad or wrong;
evil purposesan evil influenceevil deedsEvilnoun
morally objectionable behavior
Wickedadjective
highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust;
a disgusting smelldistasteful languagea loathsome diseasethe idea of eating meat is repellent to merevolting fooda wicked stenchEvilnoun
that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune;
the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bonesEvilnoun
the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice;
attempts to explain the origin of evil in the worldEviladjective
morally bad or wrong;
evil purposesan evil influenceevil deedsEviladjective
having the nature of vice
Eviladjective
tending to cause great harm
Eviladjective
having or exerting a malignant influence;
malevolent starsa malefic force
