The difference between Bad and Evil

When used as nouns, bad means error, mistake, whereas evil means moral badness.

When used as adjectives, bad means unfavorable, whereas evil means intending to harm.

Bad is also adverb with the meaning: badly.

Bad is also verb with the meaning: . see .

check bellow for the other definitions of Bad and Evil

  1. Bad as an adjective:

    Unfavorable; negative; not good.

    Examples:

    "You have bad credit."

    "The weather looks pretty bad right now."

    "Don't talk to him; he's in a bad mood."

  2. Bad as an adjective:

    Not suitable or fitting.

    Examples:

    "Do you think it is a bad idea to confront him directly?"

  3. Bad as an adjective:

    Not appropriate, of manners etc.

    Examples:

    "It is bad manners to talk with your mouth full."

  4. Bad as an adjective:

    Unhealthy; liable to cause health problems.

    Examples:

    "Lard is bad for you. Smoking is bad for you, too. Grapes are bad for dogs but not for humans."

  5. Bad as an adjective:

    Sickly, unhealthy, unwell.

    Examples:

    "Joe's in a bad way; he can't even get out of bed."

    "I went to the hospital to see how my grandfather was doing. Unfortunately, he's in a bad state."

    "I've had a bad back since the accident."

  6. Bad as an adjective:

    Tricky; stressful; unpleasant.

    Examples:

    "Divorce is usually a bad experience for everybody involved."

  7. Bad as an adjective:

    Evil; wicked.

    Examples:

    "Be careful. There are bad people in the world."

  8. Bad as an adjective:

    Faulty; not functional.

    Examples:

    "I had a bad headlight."

  9. Bad as an adjective (of food):

    , rotten, overripe.

    Examples:

    "These apples have gone bad."

  10. Bad as an adjective (of breath):

    ; foul.

    Examples:

    "'Bad breath is not pleasant for anyone."

  11. Bad as an adjective:

    False; counterfeit; illegitimate.

    Examples:

    "They were caught trying to pass bad coinage."

  12. Bad as an adjective:

    Unskilled; of limited ability; not good.

    Examples:

    "I'm pretty bad at speaking French."

    "He's a bad gardener; everything he tries to grow ends up dying."

  13. Bad as an adjective:

    Of poor physical appearance.

    Examples:

    "I look really bad whenever I get less than seven hours of sleep."

    "I don't look bad in this dress, do I?"

  14. Bad as an adjective (informal):

    Bold and daring.

  15. Bad as an adjective (hip-hop slang):

    Good; superlative.

  16. Bad as an adjective (of a, need or want):

    Severe, urgent.

    Examples:

    "He is in bad need of a haircut."

  17. Bad as an adjective (US, slang):

    Overly promiscuous, licentious.

  1. Bad as an adverb (now, colloquial):

    Badly.

    Examples:

    "I didn't do too bad in the last exam."

  1. Bad as a noun (slang):

    Error, mistake.

    Examples:

    "Sorry, my bad!"

  2. Bad as a noun (countable, uncountable, economics):

    An item (or kind of item) of merchandise with negative value; an unwanted good.

  1. Bad as an adjective (slang):

    Fantastic.

    Examples:

    "You is'' SIC ''bad, man!"

  1. Bad as a verb (archaic):

    . See .

  1. Bad as a verb (British, dialect, transitive):

    To shell (a walnut).

  1. Evil as an adjective:

    Intending to harm; malevolent.

    Examples:

    "an evil plot to kill innocent people"

  2. Evil as an adjective:

    Morally corrupt.

    Examples:

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

  3. Evil as an adjective:

    Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).

  4. Evil as an adjective:

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

  5. Evil as an adjective (obsolete):

    Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.

    Examples:

    "an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop"

  6. Evil as an adjective (computing, programming, slang):

    undesirable; harmful; bad practice

    Examples:

    "Global variables are evil; storing processing context in object member variables allows those objects to be reused in a much more flexible way."

  1. Evil as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "The evils of society include murder and theft."

    "'Evil lacks spirituality, hence its need for mind control."

  2. Evil as a noun:

    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.

  3. Evil as a noun (obsolete):

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

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