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unevil

unevil adjective: not evil.

Adjective

unevil (comparative more unevil, superlative most unevil)

  1. (rare) Not evil.
    • What is it that penetrates, that permeates, that contradicts even itself, a life not life, an unevil evil, a familiar romance?2005, Willard Spiegelman, How Poets See the World, page 165

Forms of unevil

comparativemore unevil
superlativemost unevil

Origin of unevil

From un- + evil.

Questions about unevil

What does unevil mean?
Unevil means not evil.
What part of speech is unevil?
Unevil is an adjective.

Words near unevil in the dictionary

  1. unevictable
  2. unevicted
  3. unevidenced
  4. unevident
  5. unevidential
  6. unevil
  7. unevinced
  8. uneviscerated
  9. unevitable
  10. unevitably
  11. unevocable

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