悪 — meaning in English

English meaning

• evil adjective Deeply immoral and cruel; deliberately intending to cause harm.
• phobia noun An intense, often irrational fear of a specific thing or situation.

Senses

悪 is used for these senses in English:

• phobia Used to form nouns meaning hate, dislike, or repression of a specific thing.
• evil Moral badness; wickedness; malevolence; the forces or behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good.

evil — full definition

1. adjective Deeply immoral and cruel; deliberately intending to cause harm.
2. adjective Unpleasant or unlucky, in a milder, informal sense.
3. noun Moral wickedness, or the force believed to cause suffering and wrongdoing in the world.

Related Japanese words