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adharma

noun

adharma is a noun meaning “That which is not in accord with dharma, i.e. wrong, immorality, and wickedness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-D-H-A-R-M-A, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of adharma is adharmas.

What does adharma mean?

noun

  1. 1

    That which is not in accord with dharma, i.e. wrong, immorality, and wickedness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of adharma

  • adharmas plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is adharma?

Adharma appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does adharma come from?

From Sanskrit अधर्म (adharma). By surface analysis, a- + dharma.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).