'Mischievous' definitions:
Definition of 'mischievous'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Mischievous'
From: GCIDE
- Mischievous \Mis"chie*vous\ (m[i^]s"ch[-e]*v[u^]s), a. Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child. "Most mischievous foul sin." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably mischievous to society. --South. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Harmful; hurtful; detrimental; noxious; pernicious; destructive. [1913 Webster] -- {Mis"chie*vous*ly}, adv. -- {Mis"chie*vous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mischievous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- annoying,
- arch,
- artful,
- bad,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- corroding,
- corrosive,
- corrupting,
- corruptive,
- counterproductive,
- damaging,
- dangerous,
- deadly,
- deleterious,
- destructive,
- detrimental,
- devilish,
- disadvantageous,
- disserviceable,
- distressing,
- elfish,
- elvish,
- evil,
- foolish,
- foxy,
- frolicsome,
- full of mischief,
- harmful,
- hazardous,
- high-spirited,
- hurtful,
- ill,
- ill-behaved,
- impish,
- injurious,
- insidious,
- irking,
- irksome,
- knavish,
- larkish,
- lethal,
- malefic,
- malevolent,
- malicious,
- malign,
- malignant,
- misbehaving,
- mischief-loving,
- naughty,
- noisome,
- noxious,
- ominous,
- paw,
- perilous,
- pernicious,
- playful,
- poisonous,
- prankish,
- pranksome,
- pranky,
- precarious,
- prejudicial,
- puckish,
- rascally,
- risky,
- roguish,
- scampish,
- scapegrace,
- scatheful,
- sly,
- spiteful,
- sportive,
- toxic,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- venenate,
- veneniferous,
- venenous,
- venomous,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- vicious,
- virulent,
- waggish,
- wicked