EVIL

-adj.
1. morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked: evil deeds; an evil life.
2. harmful; injurious: evil laws.
3. characterized or accompanied by misfortune or suffering; unfortunate; disastrous: to be fallen on evil days.
4. due to actual or imputed bad conduct or character: an evil reputation.
5. marked by anger, irritability, irascibility, etc.: He is known for his evil disposition.
6. the evil one, the devil; Satan.
–n. 7. that which is evil; evil quality, intention, or conduct: to choose the lesser of two evils.
8. the force in nature that governs and gives rise to wickedness and sin.
9. the wicked or immoral part of someone or something: The evil in his nature has destroyed the good.
10. harm; mischief; misfortune: to wish one evil.
11. anything causing injury or harm: Tobacco is considered by some to be an evil.
12. a harmful aspect, effect, or consequence: the evils of alcohol.
13. a disease, as king's evil.
—Syn.1. sinful, iniquitous, depraved, vicious, corrupt, base, vile, nefarious. See bad1. 2. pernicious, destructive. 7. wickedness, depravity, iniquity, unrighteousness, corruption, baseness. 10. disaster, calamity, woe, misery, suffering, sorrow.
—Ant.1. righteous.

* Excerpted from the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 3.0.