evillest
evillest is the superlative form of evil.
Meaning of evil
Adjective
evil (comparative eviller or eviler or more evil, superlative evillest or evilest or most evil)
- Intending to harm; malevolent.
- an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people
- Morally corrupt.
- If something is evil, it is never mandatory.
- Unpleasant, foul (of odor, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
- An Odoriferous Specifick […] is a Matter that takes away Diseases from the Sick, no otherwise then as Civet drives away the stinck of Ordure by its Odour; for you are to observe, That the Specifick doth permix it self with this evil Odour of the Dung; and the stink of the Dung cannot hurt, no[r]...1660, John Harding (translator), Paracelsus his Archidoxis, London: W.S., Book 7, “Of an Odoriferous Specifick,” p. 100
- Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
- The owl shrieked at thy birth,—an evil sign;c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
- Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
- an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop
- 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.
Questions about evillest
- What is evillest the superlative form of?
- Evillest is the superlative form of evil.
Words near evillest in the dictionary
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