[{"word":"evil","phonetic":"/ˈivəl/","phonetics":[{"text":"/ˈivəl/","audio":"https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/evil-us.mp3","sourceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1229296","license":{"name":"BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"}}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control."},{"definition":"Something which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a being of any good; something which causes suffering of any kind to sentient beings; harm; injury; mischief.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":["good"]},{"partOfSpeech":"adjective","definitions":[{"definition":"Intending to harm; malevolent.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"an evil plot to brainwash and even kill innocent people"},{"definition":"Morally corrupt.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?"},{"definition":"Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop"},{"definition":"Undesirable; harmful; bad practice","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way."}],"synonyms":["malevolent","malicious","nefarious","wicked"],"antonyms":["good"]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/evil"]},{"word":"evil","phonetic":"/ˈivəl/","phonetics":[{"text":"/ˈivəl/","audio":"https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/evil-us.mp3","sourceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1229296","license":{"name":"BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"}}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"adverb","definitions":[{"definition":"Wickedly, evilly, iniquitously","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Injuriously, harmfully; in a damaging way.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Badly, poorly; in an insufficient way.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/evil"]}]