evil vs error

evil and error both are nouns.

evil is an adjective but error is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
evil	Yes	Yes	No	No
error	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, error is a hyponym of evil; that is, error is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than evil:

evil: the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice
error: departure from what is ethically acceptable

Other hyponyms of evil include malevolence, malevolency, malice, malignance, malignancy, malignity, balefulness, maleficence, mischief, worst, nefariousness, ugliness, vileness, wickedness, reprehensibility, villainousness, villainy, perverseness, perversity, wrongdoing, frailty, vice, Four Horsemen.

evil (noun)	error (noun)
morally objectionable behavior	a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice	(baseball) a failure of a defensive player to make an out when normal play would have sufficed
	inadvertent incorrectness
	departure from what is ethically acceptable
	a misconception resulting from incorrect information
	part of a statement that is not correct
	(computer science) the occurrence of an incorrect result produced by a computer

evil (adjective)	error (adjective)
morally bad or wrong
having or exerting a malignant influence
having the nature of vice

Difference between evil and error

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