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nouna wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately
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nounthe principal bad character in a film or work of fiction
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Definition that contains villain
- heavy an actor who plays villainous roles
- heavy (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain
- bluebeard (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience
- villainy the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior
- fagin a villainous Jew in a novel by Charles Dickens
- iago the villain in William Shakespeare's tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife
- villainess a woman villain
- villainousness the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior