- 3. Mischievous, hurtful, harmful, injurious, pernicious, destructive, baneful, noxious, deleterious, bad.
- 4. Unhappy, unfortunate, adverse, unpropitious, disastrous, calamitous, woful, bad.
Evil, n.
- 1. Calamity, ill, woe, misery, pain, suffering, sorrow, misfortune, disaster, reverse.
- 2. Wickedness, sin, depravity, malignity, wicked disposition, corruption, wrong, viciousness, baseness,
badness.
- 3. Wrong, injury, mischief, harm.
Evil-doer, n. Sinner, criminal, malefactor, culprit, offender, delinquent, wrong-doer.
Evil one. Devil, Satan, Lucifer, Belial, Apollyon, Arch-fiend, the Tempter, the Man of Sin, the Wicked One, the Old Serpent, the Prince of Darkness, the Foul Fiend, the Enemy. See apollyon.
Evince, v. a.
- 1. Prove, show, evidence, manifest, establish, make evident, make clear.
- 2. Exhibit, indicate, manifest, show, display, bring to view.
Evincive, a. Demonstrative, indicative, evidential, evidentiary.
Eviscerate, v. a. Disembowel, embowel, paunch, gut, take out the bowels of.
Evoke, v. a.
- 1. Summon, call forth, call up, summon forth.
- 2. Excite, arouse, elicit, call out, rouse, provoke.
Evolution, n.
- 1. Evolving, unfolding, expansion, evolvement, development.
- 2. Descent by continuous differentiation, development, doctrine of development, ascent from simplicity to
complexity.
- 3. (Mil.) Movement, marching.
- 4. (Math.) Extraction of roots.