Evil
Reversed word is live. The word "evil" is formed by 4 different letters: E I L V.
Definition(s) of evil:
[1] (a.) Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an evil crop.
[1] (a.) Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt; wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and the like.
[1] (a.) Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
[1] (n.) Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good.
[1] (n.) Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority; disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.
[1] (n.) malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula.
[1] (adv.) In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily; injuriously; unkindly.
Direct anagrams: veil live vile . Number of anagrams: 3
Words created inserting one letter into evil:
devil ervil evils kevil
Shorter words created from evil letters:
el vie
Words containing letter pairs from evil: ev vi il
All words created from evil by changing one letter
List of words contained in evil
List words: starting with evil, containing evil and ending with evil
Browse words created by adding 1 letter next to evil
Poet helper: words ending with the same letter group: il vil
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