Entry Word: evildoer

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a person who commits moral wrongs <if good people stand by and do nothing, evildoers will triumph>

Synonyms malefactor, sinner, wrongdoer

Related Words criminal, crook, felon, lawbreaker, miscreant, reprobate, transgressor, villain

Near Antonyms angel, saint

2 a mean, evil, or unprincipled person <the novelʼs slave owner, Simon Legree, became one of the most notorious evildoers in all of literature> — see villain