noun
Meaning 1
A person who performs evil acts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
evildoer
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈiːvəlˌduːə/
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General-American: /ˈivəlˌduːɚ/
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noun
Meaning 2
a person who sins (without repenting)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sinner
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wrongdoer, offender
Narrower terms: magdalen, Mary Magdalene, St. Mary Magdalene, Mary Magdalen, St. Mary Magdalen
History
Etymology
From Middle English yvel doer; equivalent to evil + doer.
Across languages
Translations
62 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: keqbërës — person who performs evil acts
- Basque: gaizkile — person who performs evil acts
- Belarusian: злачы́нец (zlačýnjec) — person who performs evil acts
- Bulgarian: злоде́й (zlodéj) — person who performs evil acts
- Chinese Mandarin: 壞分子 /坏分子 (huàifènzi) — person who performs evil acts
- Chinese Mandarin: 壞人 /坏人 (huàirén) — person who performs evil acts
- Ngazidja Comorian: mfasiki — person who performs evil acts
- Czech: pachatel — person who performs evil acts
- Czech: pachatelka — person who performs evil acts
- Dutch: overtreder — person who performs evil acts
- Dutch: slechterik — person who performs evil acts
- Esperanto: fiulo — person who performs evil acts
- Esperanto: malbonfaranto — person who performs evil acts
- Finnish: pahantekijä — person who performs evil acts
- Finnish: pahis — person who performs evil acts
- French: malfaiteur — person who performs evil acts
- French: malfaitrice — person who performs evil acts
- French: méchant — person who performs evil acts
- French: méchante — person who performs evil acts
- Galician: malfeitor — person who performs evil acts
- Georgian: ბოროტმოქმედი (boroṭmokmedi) — person who performs evil acts
- German: Übeltäter — person who performs evil acts
- German: Übeltäterin — person who performs evil acts
- German: Frevler — person who performs evil acts
- German: Frevlerin — person who performs evil acts
- Gothic: 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌴𐌳𐌾𐌰 (waidēdja) — person who performs evil acts
- Ancient Greek: κακοῦργος (kakoûrgos) — person who performs evil acts
- Ancient Greek: κακοποιός (kakopoiós) — person who performs evil acts
- Hindi: कुकर्मी (kukarmī) — person who performs evil acts
- Hindi: पापी (pāpī) — person who performs evil acts
- Icelandic: illvirki — person who performs evil acts
- Ingrian: pahantekijä — person who performs evil acts
- Ingrian: pilluri — person who performs evil acts
- Irish: ainbheartach — person who performs evil acts
- Italian: malfattore — person who performs evil acts
- Japanese: 悪人 — person who performs evil acts
- Japanese: 邪悪な人 (jaaku na hito) — person who performs evil acts
- Japanese: 姦人 (kanjin) — person who performs evil acts
- Korean: 나쁜 짓을 하는 사람 (nappeun jis-eul haneun saram) — person who performs evil acts
- Korean: 악인 (agin) — person who performs evil acts
- Latin: maleficus — person who performs evil acts
- Latin: malefactor — person who performs evil acts
- Latvian: ļaundaris — person who performs evil acts
- Macedonian: злотвор (zlotvor) — person who performs evil acts
- Middle English: yvel doer — person who performs evil acts
- Polish: złoczyńca — person who performs evil acts
- Portuguese: malfeitor — person who performs evil acts
- Portuguese: malfeitora — person who performs evil acts
- Russian: злоумы́шленник (zloumýšlennik) — person who performs evil acts
- Russian: злоумы́шленница (zloumýšlennica) — person who performs evil acts
- Serbo-Croatian: зло̏твор — person who performs evil acts
- Serbo-Croatian: zlȍtvor — person who performs evil acts
- Lower Sorbian: paduch — person who performs evil acts
- Spanish: malhechor — person who performs evil acts
- Spanish: malhechora — person who performs evil acts
- Spanish: malfechor (disused) — person who performs evil acts
- Spanish: facineroso — person who performs evil acts
- Spanish: maleante — person who performs evil acts
- Swahili: mpotovu — person who performs evil acts
- Telugu: దోషకారి (dōṣakāri) — person who performs evil acts
- Tocharian B: yolo-yāmi — person who performs evil acts
- Ukrainian: злочи́нець (zločýnecʹ) — person who performs evil acts