Evil vs Destructive - What's the difference?
evil | destructive | Synonyms |
Intending to harm; malevolent.
Morally corrupt.
* Shakespeare
Unpleasant. (rfex)
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxii. 19
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
* Bible, Matthew vii. 18
(computing, programming, slang) undesirable; harmful; bad practice
Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.
* Bible, (Ecclesiastes). ix. 3
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, title= 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.
* (John Milton)
* (William Shakespeare)
(obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).
* (Shakespeare)
* Addison
Causing destruction; damaging.
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Causing breakdown or disassembly.
Evil is a synonym of destructive.
As adjectives the difference between evil and destructive
is that evil is intending to harm; malevolent while destructive is causing destruction; damaging.As a noun evil
is moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.evil
English
Adjective
- Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil ?
- an evil plot to kill innocent people
- Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, / When death's approach is seen so terrible.
- He hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel.
- The owl shrieked at thy birth — an evil sign.
- Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
- an evil''' beast; an '''evil''' plant; an '''evil crop
- A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit.
- Global variables are evil ; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way.
Synonyms
* nefarious * malicious * malevolent * See alsoAntonyms
* goodDerived terms
* evil eye * evil laugh * evil laughter * evilly * evil-minded * Evil One * evil twin * evilnessNoun
(wikipedia evil)- The heart of the sons of men is full of evil .
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The preposterous altruism too!
- evils which our own misdeeds have wrought
- The evil that men do lives after them.
- He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil .
Antonyms
* goodDerived terms
* axis of evil * evildoer * king's evil * lesser evil * necessary evil * poll evilStatistics
*Anagrams
*destructive
English
Adjective
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- Catabolism is a destructive metabolism which involves the break down of molecules and release of energy.