Naughty

Adjective

 * 1) bad; tending to misbehave or act badly.
 * There was a very naughty boy at school yesterday.
 * 1) risque: flirting with impropriety and/or bad taste; morally dubious, especially sexually suggestive, usually in a mild way.
 * If I see you send another naughty email to your friends, you will be forbidden from the computer!
 * 1)  evil, wicked, morally vicious
 * The naughty witch wanted to destroy the planet.

Synonyms

 * dirty
 * mischievous

Derived terms

 * naughtily
 * naughtiness
 * naughty bit

Thesaurus
abominable, arrant, atrocious, bad, base, bawdy, black, blamable, blameworthy, blue, contrary, criminal, damnable, dark, defiant, devilish, dirty, disgraceful, disobedient, disorderly, disruptive, evil, execrable, flagitious, flagrant, foul, fractious, frolicsome, froward, headstrong, heinous, ill-behaved, immoral, impish, improper, indecent, indecorous, indisciplined, infamous, iniquitous, insubordinate, intractable, knavish, lawless, lewd, low, misbehaving, mischievous, monstrous, nefarious, nonconforming, not respectable, obscene, obstinate, obstreperous, off color, off-base, offensive, out-of-line, paw, peccant, perverse, playful, pornographic, puckish, rank, raunchy, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, reprehensible, reprobate, ribald, risque, roguish, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffianly, scampish, scandalous, self-willed, shameful, sinful, smutty, transgressive, unbehaving, uncomplying, undisciplined, unduteous, undutiful, unforgivable, ungovernable, unmanageable, unpardonable, unruly, unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, violative, vulgar, wayward, wicked, willful, wrong

Etymology
Recorded since 1377 as naugti "needy, having nothing", either from nawiht (see naught) or from the same via naught 'zero, cipher'. Sense of "wicked, evil, morally wrong" is attested from 1529. The more tame main modern sense of "disobedient" (especially of children) is attested from 1633. A woman of bad character c.1530-1750 might be called a naughty pack.

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: knotty (in some dialects)
 * Homophones: knotty (in some dialects)
 * Homophones: knotty (in some dialects)
 * Homophones: knotty (in some dialects)
 * Homophones: knotty (in some dialects)

Translations

 * Arabic: شرير, مؤذ
 * Catalan: trapella
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 頑皮, 顽皮,  ,
 * Danish: slem, uartig
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, ,
 * German: unartig,,  ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian: nakal
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: わんぱく,,  やんちゃ,  行儀が悪い
 * Korean: 장난꾸러기의
 * Kurdish:
 * Norwegian: uskikkelig
 * Portuguese:, levado
 * Russian: озорной, непослушный,  шаловливый
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , , , ,
 * Finnish:


 * Norwegian: frekk, uforskamma
 * Portuguese: safado
 * Spanish: ,


 * : risqué