Word.ws English Dictionary

evilfare

UK/ˈiːvəlˌfɛə/US/ˈiːvəlˌfɛɚ/

evilfare noun: ill-success; misfortune.

Noun

evilfare (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Ill-success; misfortune.
    • That a greate power ther is in foꝛtune, on eyther ſide, either for welfare, or euillfare: who is ignoꝛaunt?1556, Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by Nicholas Grimalde, Marcus Tullius Ciceroes thꝛe bokes of duties to Marcus his sonne, London: Richard Tottel, translation of De Officiis (in Latin), folio...
    • True, we've always had the sordid working their evilfare before the web. Now, however, it is the speed with which both the good and the bad can rush to aid the common good, as well as to unravel it.2014 January 23, Mark Y. Herring, Are Libraries Obsolete? An Argument for Relevance in the Digital Age, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers, →ISBN, page 50

Origin of evilfare

From evil + fare. Compare warfare.

Questions about evilfare

What does evilfare mean?
Evilfare means ill-success; misfortune.
What part of speech is evilfare?
Evilfare is a noun.
How do you pronounce evilfare?
Evilfare is pronounced /ˈiːvəlˌfɛə/ (UK).

Words near evilfare in the dictionary

  1. evildoers
  2. evildoing
  3. evildoings
  4. eviler
  5. evilest
  6. evilfare
  7. evilfavouredness
  8. evilhearted
  9. evilhood
  10. evilish
  11. evilist

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: evilfare (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “evilfare.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/evilfare. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.