The difference between Evil and Positive
When used as nouns, evil means moral badness, whereas positive means a thing capable of being affirmed.
When used as adjectives, evil means intending to harm, whereas positive means not negative or neutral.
check bellow for the other definitions of Evil and Positive
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Evil as an adjective:
Intending to harm; malevolent.
Examples:
"an evil plot to kill innocent people"
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Evil as an adjective:
Morally corrupt.
Examples:
"Do you think that companies that engage in animal testing are evil?"
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Evil as an adjective:
Unpleasant, foul (of odour, taste, mood, weather, etc.).
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Evil as an adjective:
Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous.
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Evil as an adjective (obsolete):
Having harmful qualities; not good; worthless or deleterious.
Examples:
"an evil beast; an evil plant; an evil crop"
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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."
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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."
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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.
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Evil as a noun (obsolete):
A malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil (scrofula).
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Positive as an adjective:
Not negative or neutral.
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Positive as an adjective (legal):
Formally laid down.
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Positive as an adjective:
Stated definitively and without qualification.
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Positive as an adjective:
Fully assured in opinion.
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Positive as an adjective (mathematics):
Of number, greater than zero.
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Positive as an adjective:
Characterized by constructiveness or influence for the better.
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Positive as an adjective:
Overconfident, dogmatic.
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Positive as an adjective (chiefly, philosophy):
Actual, real, concrete, not theoretical or speculative.
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Positive as an adjective (physics):
Having more protons than electrons.
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Positive as an adjective (grammar):
Describing the primary sense of an adjective, adverb or noun; not comparative, superlative, augmentative nor diminutive.
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Positive as an adjective:
Derived from an object by itself; not dependent on changing circumstances or relations; absolute.
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Positive as an adjective:
Characterized by the existence or presence of distinguishing qualities or features, rather than by their absence.
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Positive as an adjective:
Characterized by the presence of features which support a hypothesis.
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Positive as an adjective (photography):
Of a visual image, true to the original in light, shade and colour values.
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Positive as an adjective:
Favorable, desirable by those interested or invested in that which is being judged.
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Positive as an adjective:
Wholly what is expressed; colloquially downright, entire, outright.
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Positive as an adjective:
Optimistic.
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Positive as an adjective (chemistry):
electropositive
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Positive as an adjective (chemistry):
basic; metallic; not acid; opposed to negative, and said of metals, bases, and basic radicals.
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Positive as an adjective (slang):
HIV positive.
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Positive as an adjective ([[New Age]] [[jargon]]):
Good, desirable, healthful, pleasant, enjoyable; (often precedes 'energy', 'thought', 'feeling' or 'emotion').
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Positive as a noun:
A thing capable of being affirmed; something real or actual.
Examples:
"rfquotek South"
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Positive as a noun:
A favourable point or characteristic.
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Positive as a noun:
Something having a positive value in physics, such as an electric charge.
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Positive as a noun (grammar):
A degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs.
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Positive as a noun (grammar):
An adjective or adverb in the positive degree.
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Positive as a noun (photography):
A positive image; one that displays true colors and shades, as opposed to a negative.
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Positive as a noun:
The positive plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
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Positive as a noun:
A positive result of a test.