<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel.</li><li>Synonyms: scamp, rogue, rapscallion, rascal, knave.</li><li>A character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot.</li><li>A person or thing considered to be the cause of something bad: Fear is the villain that can sabotage our goals.</li><li>Villein.</li></ul>