THE EVIL HOUR / DAY / MOMENT

Meaning of THE EVIL HOUR / DAY / MOMENT in English

(often humorous ) the time when you have to do sth difficult or unpleasant

Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary. Оксфордский английский словарь для изучающик язык на продвинутом уровне. 2005

DAY — I Time required for a celestial body to turn once on its axis; especially, the period of the Earth's rotation. …
Английский словарь Британика
EVIL — I. ˈēvəl sometimes -(ˌ)vil adjective ( sometimes eviler or eviller ; evilest or evillest ) Etymology: Middle English ivel, evel, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DAY — I. ˈdā noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English dæg; akin to Old High German tag day, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MOMENT — ˈmōmənt noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin momentum movement, motion, moment, influence, from earlier …
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
EVIL — (a.) Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil days.
Английский словарь Webster
EVIL — (a.) Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good; …
Английский словарь Webster
MOMENT — /moh"meuhnt/ , n. 1. an indefinitely short period of time; instant: I'll be with you in a moment. 2. the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HOUR — — hourless , adj. /oweur, ow"euhr/ , n. 1. a period of time equal to one twenty-fourth of a mean …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
EVIL — — evilly , adv. — evilness , n. /ee"veuhl/ , adj. 1. morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked: evil deeds; …
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DAY — /day/ , n. 1. the interval of light between two successive nights; the time between sunrise and sunset: Since there …
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EVIL — I. ˈē-vəl, Britain often & US also ˈē-(ˌ)vil adjective ( evil·er or evil·ler ; evil·est or evil·lest ) Etymology: Middle …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HOUR — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ure, eure, from Late Latin & Latin; Late Latin hora canonical hour, from Latin, …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
MOMENT — noun impulsive power; force; momentum. 2. moment ·noun an infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement. 3. …
Webster English vocab
HOUR — noun a measure of distance traveled. 2. hour ·noun the twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes. 3. hour ·noun …
Webster English vocab
EVIL — noun malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the scrofula. 2. evil ·adv in an evil manner; not …
Webster English vocab
HOUR — [hour] n [ME, fr. OF heure, fr. LL & L; LL hora canonical hour, fr. L, hour of the day, …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
EVIL — [evil] adj evil.er or evil.ler ; evil.est or evil.lest [ME, fr. OE yfel; akin to OHG ubil evil] (bef. 12c) …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HOUR — in timekeeping, 3,600 seconds, now defined in terms of radiation emitted from atoms of the element cesium under specified conditions. …
Britannica English vocabulary
EVIL — evil BrE AmE ˈiːv ə l -ɪl ▷ evil|s z ▶ ˌ evil ˈ eye BrE AmE ▶ ˈ Evil …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
MOMENT — / ˈməʊmənt; NAmE ˈmoʊ-/ noun 1. a very short period of time : Could you wait a moment , please? …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HOUR — / ˈaʊə(r); NAmE / noun HELP NOTE : Use an , not a , before hour . 1. [ C …
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EVIL — / ˈiːvl; NAmE ; ˈiːvɪl/ adjective , noun ■ adjective 1. ( of people ) enjoying harming others; morally bad …
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DAY — / deɪ; NAmE / noun 1. [ C ] a period of 24 hours : I saw Tom three days …
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MOMENT — mo ‧ ment S1 W1 /ˈməʊmənt $ ˈmoʊ-/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Word Family: noun : ↑ moment , …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HOUR — hour S1 W1 /aʊə $ aʊr/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1100-1200 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: heure …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
EVIL — I. e ‧ vil 1 S3 W3 /ˈiːv ə l/ BrE AmE adjective [ Language: Old English ; Origin: yfel …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
DAY — day S1 W1 /deɪ/ BrE AmE noun [ Word Family: noun : ↑ day , ↑ midday ; adverb : …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
MOMENT — n. 1 a very brief portion of time; an instant. 2 a short period of time (wait a moment) (see …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
HOUR — n. 1 a twenty-fourth part of a day and night, 60 minutes. 2 a time of day, a point in …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
EVIL — adj. & n. --adj. 1 morally bad; wicked. 2 harmful or tending to harm, esp. intentionally or characteristically. 3 disagreeable …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
DAY — n. 1 the time between sunrise and sunset. 2 a a period of 24 hours as a unit of time, …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
MOMENT — n. 1 a very brief portion of time; an instant. 2 a short period of time (wait a moment) (see …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
HOUR — n. 1 a twenty-fourth part of a day and night, 60 minutes. 2 a time of day, a point in …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
EVIL — adj. & n. adj. 1 morally bad; wicked. 2 harmful or tending to harm, esp. intentionally or characteristically. 3 disagreeable …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
DAY — n. 1 the time between sunrise and sunset. 2 a a period of 24 hours as a unit of time, …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
MOMENT — n.1 a very brief portion of time; an instant. 2 a short period of time (wait a moment) (see also …
Oxford English vocab
HOUR — n.1 a twenty-fourth part of a day and night, 60 minutes. 2 a time of day, a point in time …
Oxford English vocab
EVIL — adj. & n. --adj. 1. morally bad; wicked. 2 harmful or tending to harm, esp. intentionally or characteristically. 3 disagreeable …
Oxford English vocab
DAY — n.1 the time between sunrise and sunset. 2 a a period of 24 hours as a unit of time, esp. …
Oxford English vocab
MOMENT — ( moments) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. You can refer to …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HOUR — ( hours) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. An hour is a …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
EVIL — ( evils) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Evil is a powerful …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DAY — ( days) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. A day is one …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
MOMENT — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a brief moment ▪ The old lady’s gaze rested on her for a brief moment. …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HOUR — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES 24 hours a day (= during the whole day and night ) ▪ In Cairo, …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
EVIL — I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an evil spell ▪ The people still believe in evil spells. evil deed ▪ …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HOUR — [noun] [C] - a period of 60 minutesThe exam lasted an hour/three hours/half an hour/a quarter of an hour/an hour …
Cambridge English vocab
EVIL — [adjective] - immoral, or cruel, or very unpleasantWe must do everything necessary to overthrow this evil dictator.He was a narrow-minded, …
Cambridge English vocab
DAY — [noun] [C] - a period of 24 hours, esp. from 12 o'clock one night to 12 o'clock the next night, …
Cambridge English vocab
DAY — n. day lily All Saints' Day All Souls' Day April Fools' Day All Fools' Day Canada Day Dominion Day D …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
EVIL — Synonyms and related words : Loki, Nemesis, Set, Typhon, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, abomination, accursed, ado, affliction, agony, amorality, angry, anguish, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
EVIL — I. noun 1. whatever is harmful, distressing, or disastrous attempts to grasp the nature of evil Synonyms: ill Related Word: …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
HOUR — noun 1 period of sixty minutes ADJECTIVE ▪ full , solid ▪ I slept for eight solid ~s. ▪ contact …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
MOMENT — • ↑ a minute/a moment • ↑ an inopportune moment/time • ↑ an opportune moment/time • ↑ any minute/moment/time now …
Longman Activator English vocab
DAY — • ↑ any day/any day now • ↑ at the end of the day • ↑ by day/by night • …
Longman Activator English vocab
EVIL — n. 25B6; adjective an evil deed : WICKED, bad, wrong, immoral, sinful, foul, vile, dishonourable, corrupt, iniquitous, depraved, villainous, nefarious, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
DAY — n. 25B6; noun I stayed for a day : TWENTY-FOUR-HOUR PERIOD, twenty-four hours. enjoy the beach during the day : …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
EVIL — As used by a hacker , implies that some system, program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
EVIL — As used by hackers, implies that some system, program, person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth …
Jargon File English vocabulary
MOMENT — noun 1 BAD : In that moment the door opened. GOOD : At that moment the door opened. ◆◆◆ in …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
MOMENT — сущ. 1) а) миг, минута, момент, мгновение короткий период времени for a moment ≈ на одну минуту in a rash …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
HOUR — сущ. 1) час to show, tell the hour ≈ показывать время a solid hour ≈ целый час an ungodly hour …
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