Mischievous

Definition: Mischievous

Mischievous

Adjective

1. Naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter".

2. Badly behaved; "he was saucy and mischievous in school"; "a naughty boy".

3. Deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and falsehoods".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "mischievous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Mischievous

Inexpedience

Adjective: hurtful, harmful, scathful, baneful, baleful; injurious, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome; prejudicial; disserviceable, disadvantageous; wide-wasting.

Crosswords: Mischievous

Mischievous Puck (1911)

Countryman and Mischievous Boys (1898)

The Mischievous Monkey (1897)

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Books

• The Everything Dog Training and Tricks Book: Turn the Most Mischievous Canine into a Well-Behaved Dog Who Knows a Few Tricks (Everything Series) (reference)

• Bibliotoons: A Mischievous Meander Through the Stacks & Beyond (reference)

• Somono Bala of the Upper Niger: River People, Charismatic Bards, and Mischievous Music in a West African Culture (African Sources for African history (reference)

• The Wild, Wild West; For the Discriminating Reader: A Chilling Illustrated History Presenting the Facts About a Passel of Low-Down Mischievous persona (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Mischievous (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Mischievous, meddlin' mongrel : now you've got the consequences. Credit: Library of Congress.

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A cantankerous, complaining, mischievous, laughing face

It was set on fire by mischievous boys, one Election night, if I do not mistake

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Expressions using "mischievous": mischievous face ♦ mischievous manner ♦ mischievous spirit. Additional references.

Ending with "mischievous": track-mischievous.

Albanian

shejtan (brat, devil, elfin, impish, monkey, puckish, scallywag, scampish, sea cock, varmint, villain), qerrata (scallywag, scamp, scapegrace, son of a gun, varmint, wretch), i djallëzuar (arch, impish, malicious), i dëmshëm (baneful, damnific, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, injurious, malefic, maleficent, malign, nocent, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, unwholesome). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مزعج (aggravating, annoying, bore, bothering, bothersome, disagreeable, disquieting, disturber, disturbing, galling, grating, harsh, horrid, importunate, importune, intruder, irksome, irritating, mean, offensive, pain in the neck, pestilential, plaguy, provoking, terrible, tiresome, troubled, troublesome, ugly, uncomfortable, unpleasant, upsetting, vexatious, vexing, wicked, worrisome), ‏مؤذ (annoying, bad, baleful, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, injurious, maleficent, malevolent, malign, nasty, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, poisonous, prejudicial, unwholesome, verminous, wicked). (various references)

Bulgarian 

зловреден (malefic, malign, malignant, pestilent, pestilential, swart, unwholesome), злонамерен (evil-minded, malicious, snide, wicked), пакостник (imp, monkey, naughty, rascal, rogue, sod, varmint), пакостен (elvish, harmful, maleficent, noisome, noxious, wicked), пакостлив (naughty, pixy, puckish, roguish), палав (impish, larky, naughty, noisy, pixy, prankish, puppyish, rompy, troublesome, wanton), игрив (blithe, coltish, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, gamesome, gay, jocose, kittenish, monkeyish, pert, playful, skittish, sportful, sportive, tricksy, wanton), дяволит (impish, pawky, perky, puckish, scampish). (various references)

Chinese 

調皮 (naughty, unruly), � � (naughty, obstinate, stubborn, stupid, to play), 惡作劇 (mischief, practical joke), 恶作剧. (various references)

Czech

zlovolný (bloody minded, malevolent), zlomyslný (bitchy, catty, despiteful, malicious, malignant, nasty, spiteful, unfriendly, unkind, vicious), uliènický (rowdy), rozpustilý (boisterous, hoity toity, impish, naughty, ribald, unruly, wanton). (various references)

Dutch

kwaadaardig (malicious, nasty, vicious), boosaardig (malicious, nasty, vicious). (various references)

Esperanto

malica (malicious, nasty, vicious), petolema (playful). (various references)

Farsi 

موذی (Arch, Baneful, Insidious, Shrewd, Sly), شیطان (Arch, Bogey, Deuce, Devil, Impish, Naughty, Tempter), بدسگال (Vicious), بدجنس (Mean). (various references)

Finnish

veitikkamainen (roguish), veikeä (cute), pahankurinen (unruly), ilkivaltainen (disorderly, outrageous), ilkeä (bad, evil, loathsome, malicious, nasty, naughty, vicious, wicked). (various references)

French

perfide, méchant (miserable). (various references)

Frisian

glûpsk (insidious, malicious, nasty, vicious). (various references)

German

schädlich (adverse, baneful, damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, harmful, harmfull, hurtful, inimical, injurious, injuriously, malign, malignly, mischievously, noisome, nonconstructive, noxal, noxious, noxiously, pernicious, perniciousness, prejudicial, unhealthy), nachteilig (derogatory, detrimental, disadvantageous, disadvantageously, prejudicial), boshaft (catty, fiendish, impish, invidious, malevolent, malicious, maliciously, mischievously, nasty, poisonous, shrewish, spiteful, spitefully, vicious, wicked). (various references)

Greek 

κακόσ (awful, bad, evil, ill, maleficent, naughty, sinistrous, spiteful, vicious, wicked), σκανδαλιάρικοσ, ζημιάρησ, άτακτοσ (anomalous, fractious, haywire, irregular, naughty, snatchy, straggly, tough, unruly). (various references)

Hebrew 

מזיק (detrimental, harmful, hurtful, inimical, injurious, malign, noxious, prejudicial, unwholesome), תעלולי, שובבי (impish, naughty, puckish, rogue, roguish, sly, sportive, urchin, wanton), שובב (boisterous, enfant terrible, imp, naughty, pawky, rascal), קו� �"סי (prankish, puckish, sly), ז�"ו� י (baleful, malicious, wicked, willful). (various references)

Hungarian

pajkos (arch, as mischievous as a monkey, elfin, elfish, frolicsome, impish, naughty, playful, prankish, shrewd, tricksy), kártékony (nocuous, noxious), csintalan (naughty, perky, puckish, shrewd, wicked), gonosz (bad, black, black-hearted, catty, evil, fell, felon, felonious, ill, iniquitous, maleficent, malicious, malignant, nefarious, rancorous, shabby, shrewd, spiteful, ungodly, vicious, viperous, wicked). (various references)

Indonesian

nakal (elfish, impish, naughty, puckish, pucklike, wicked). (various references)

Italian

birichino (arch, cheeky youngster, impudent, little scamp, roguish, romp). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

やり方が渋い (Aah!, affluence, Ah!, at ease, calm, Dear me!, exclamation of relief or disappointment, flicker, large thing swaying, mildly, naughty, Oh dear!, Oh!, reserve, rock, roll, rolling from side to side, room, shake, slow swaying, slowly, softly, stingy ways, swing, swinging, Thank God!, time, tremble, vibrate, waver, wobbling). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

や�"ちゃ (naughty). (various references)

Korean 

장난스러운 (frolicsome). (various references)

Manx

skiellagh (injurious), olkyssagh (baleful, elfish, evilly-disposed, iniquitous, malicious, malignant, mischief-maker, naughty, vicious, wicked), mitchooragh (rascally). (various references)

Pig Latin

ischievousmay.(various references)

Polish

złośliwy (malicious, nasty, vicious). (various references)

Portuguese

malicioso (arch, bland, catty, despiteful, devilish, evil-minded, guileful, malicious, mordacious, nasty, parlous, pawky, piquant, puckish, salty, tricksy, vicious, wanton), arteiro (drafty, draughty, pawky, playful). (various references)

Romanian

vãtãmãtor (baleful, baneful, cankerous, deleterious, harmful, injurious, maleficent, noisome, noxious), rãuvoitor (evil-disposed, evil-minded, ill disposed, malevolent, malign, squint), rãutãcios (catty, elfish, jeering, jeeringly, malicious, malignant, spiteful, vicious, wicked), rãu (Amiss, atrocious, awkward, awry, bad, bad for, bad-hearted, badly, baleful, black, bum, corrupt, depraved, evil, flagitious, foul, haggish, harm, ill, immoral, lousy, malefic, maleficent, malicious, malign, mischief, miserable, naughty, perverse, rough, scoundrel, sickness, thin, unspeakable, useless, venomous, vicious, vile, wicked, wretched, wrong), neastâmpãrat (agitated, bustling, fretting, impish, mischief, naughty, prankish, restless), dãunãtor (bad, baleful, evil, hurtful, injurious, maleficent, malign, noisome, pest, pestilent, pestilential, prejudicially, sinister). (various references)

Russian 

озорной (full of mischief, naughty), непослушный (disobedient, naughty, rebellious, recalcitrant, unamenable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vragolast (monkeyish, playful, tricksy, waggish), nestašan (be naughty, frisky, kittenish, puckish, restless, rogue, unruly), štetan (adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, inimical, injurious, maleficent, nocuous, noisome, prejudicial), škodljiv (harmful, hurtful, inimical, noxious, unwholesome). (various references)

Spanish

travieso (across, athwart, frolicsome, high-spirited, impish, naughty, playful, prankish, puckish, roguish, wanton, wayward, wilful, willful), astuto (artful, astute, cannie, canny, clever, colic, crafty, cunning, deep, devious, dodgy, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, malicious, nasty, pawky, politic, sharp, shifty, sleeky, slick, sly, smart, tricky, vicious, wide, wily, worldly wise). (various references)

Swedish

okynnig (elfin, impish), odygd (mischief, naughty). (various references)

Turkish

zararlı (baleful, baneful, corruptive, deleterious, derogatory, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, insalubrious, malefic, maleficent, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, prejudicial, unhealthy, unwholesome), zarar verici (counterproductive, damaging, malignant), yaramaz (elfin, elvish, good for nothing, impish, little perisher, naughty, non-effective, obstreperous, pickle, prankish, rogue, rompy, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, skittish, undisciplined, unmanageable, wicked), afacan (guttersnipe, imp, impish, little monster, little perisher, naughty, pickle, puckish, rascal, scamp, urchin). (various references)

Ukrainian

шкідливий (adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, calamitous, cancerous, cankerous, damnific, deleterious, destructive, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, insanitary, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pestiferous, pestilent, sickly, unhealthy, wrongful), пустотливий (airy, arch, coltish, elfish, elvish, frisky, gamesome, impish, kittenish, monkeyish, naughty, prankish, puckish, roguish, sly, waggish, wanton, whisky). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tinh quái (arch, puckish), ranh mãnh (knowing, knowingly, sly), láu lỉnh (tricksy), hay l� m hại tác hại, có hại tinh nghịch. (various references)

Welsh

direidus (arch). (various references)

lascivus. (various references)

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Derivations

Words beginning with "mischievous": mischievously, mischievousness, mischievousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Mischievous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mischeivous, mischevious, mischevous, mischiefous, mischieveous, mischievious, mischiveous, mischivous. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: isocheims, isochimes.

-3 letters: echoisms, isocheim, isochime, omissive.

-4 letters: cesiums, chivies, chouses, civisms, cuishes, echoism, hocuses, ischium, meiosis, miscues, missive, mouches, schmoes, seismic, simious, vichies, vicious, viscose, viscous, vouches.

-5 letters: cesium, chemos, chimes, chives, choses, chouse, civies, civism, coshes, cosies, cuisse, hoises, houses, miches, mioses, miosis, miscue, misuse, moshes, mouses, mousse, movies, muches, mucose, mushes.

+2 letters: mischievously.

+4 letters: mischievousness.