Rascal vs Villain - What's the difference?
rascal | villain | Synonyms |
A dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.
A playfully mischievous person or creature; a troublemaker.
A member of a criminal gang in Papua New Guinea.
(rfc-sense) (en) A vile, wicked person.
# An extremely depraved person, or one capable or guilty of great crimes.
# A deliberate scoundrel.
The bad person in a work of fiction; often the main antagonist of the hero.
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Villain is a synonym of rascal.
As nouns the difference between rascal and villain
is that rascal is a dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster while villain is a vile, wicked person.As an adjective rascal
is low; lowly, part of or belonging to the common rabble.As a proper noun Rascal
is {{surname|lang=en}.As a verb villain is
to debase; to degrade.rascal
English
Noun
(en noun)- That little rascal bit me!
- If you have deer in the area, you may have to put a fence around your garden to keep the rascals out.
Synonyms
* (someone who is naughty) devil, imp, mischief-maker, scamp, scoundrel * See also * See alsoDerived terms
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*villain
English
(wikipedia villain)Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain , and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
- As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain —not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues, but the one who set the tone for entire series.