1.
[syn: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked]
2. deliberately causing harm or damage;
- Example: "mischievous rumors and falsehoods"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mischievous
adj 1: naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying
with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank" [syn: arch,
impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated,
prankish, puckish, wicked]
2: deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and
falsehoods"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "mischievous":
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