Evil vs Disaster - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between evil and disaster

is that evil is moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good while disaster is .

As an adjective evil

is intending to harm; malevolent.

evil

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Adjective

Intending to harm; malevolent.

Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil ?

Morally corrupt.

an evil plot to kill innocent people

* Shakespeare

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, / When death's approach is seen so terrible.

Unpleasant. (rfex)

Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.

* Bible, Deuteronomy xxii. 19

He hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel.

* Shakespeare

The owl shrieked at thy birth — an evil sign.

* Milton

Evil news rides post, while good news baits.

(obsolete) Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.

an evil''' beast; an '''evil''' plant; an '''evil crop

* Bible, Matthew vii. 18

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit.

(computing, programming, slang) undesirable; harmful; bad practice

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 also

Antonyms

* good

Derived terms

* evil eye * evil laugh * evil laughter * evilly * evil-minded * Evil One * evil twin * evilness

Noun

(wikipedia evil)

Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.

* Bible, (Ecclesiastes). ix. 3

The heart of the sons of men is full of evil .

* , chapter=16

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The preposterous altruism too!

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)

evils which our own misdeeds have wrought

* (William Shakespeare)

The evil that men do lives after them.

(obsolete) A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).

* (Shakespeare)

* Addison

He [Edward the Confessor] was the first that touched for the evil .

Antonyms

* good

Derived terms

* axis of evil * evildoer * king's evil * lesser evil * necessary evil * poll evil

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disaster

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Alternative forms

* disastre (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)

An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= High and wet , passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.}}

An unforeseen event causing great loss, upset or unpleasantness of whatever kind.

*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1

, passage=And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.}}

* 2003 ,

A nod means good, two nods; very good. And then there's the pursing of the lips: disaster .

Synonyms

* See also