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What does evil mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word evil? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Intending to harm; malevolent.
  2. Morally corrupt.
  3. Unpleasant, as in 'an evil smell'. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  4. Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
  5. (obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
  6. (computing) undesirable; harmful; bad practice
Noun
  1. Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
  2. 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.
  3. (obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).
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