Roget's Thesaurus

#619. Evil

Nouns

evil, ill, harm, hurt., mischief, nuisance; machinations of the devil, Pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to. blow, buffet, stroke, scratch, bruise, wound, gash, mutilation; mortal blow, wound; immedicabile vulnus [Lat.]; damage, loss etc. (deterioration) 659. disadvantage, prejudice, drawback. disaster, accident, casualty; mishap etc. (misfortune) 735; bad job, devil to pay; calamity, bale, catastrophe, tragedy; ruin etc. (destruction) 162; adversity etc. 735. mental suffering etc. 828. demon etc. 980. (Evil spirit) bane, etc. 663 (cause of evil). badness, etc. 649 (Production of Evil); painfulness, etc. 830; evil doer, etc. 913. outrage, wrong, injury, foul play; bad turn, ill turn; disservice, spoliation etc. 791; grievance, crying evil.

Verbs

be in trouble etc. (adversity) 735.

Adjectives

disastrous, bad etc. 649; awry, out of joint; disadvantageous.

Adverbs

amis [Fr.], wrong, ill, to one's cost.

Phrases

moving accidents by flood and field [Othello].