Mischief

Noun

 * 1) Harm or evil caused by an agent or brought about by a particular cause.
 * 2) One who causes mischief. In a milder sense, one who causes petty annoyances. mischief-maker.
 * 3) Vexatious or annoying conduct.

Quotations

 * 1914-1915 "I fear this means that there is some mischief afoot." &mdash; Sherlock Holmes in The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Synonyms

 * agitation, annoyance, corruption, damage, demolition, destruction, detriment, disablement, disruption, evil, harm, hurt, ill, impairment, incapacitation, injury, nuisance, pique, ravage, sabotage, scathe, trouble, undoing, unmaking, vexation, weakening, wrong
 * bad boy, booger, buffoon, bugger, cutup, devil, elf, enfant terrible, fun-maker, hell-raiser, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, imp, joker, jokester, knave, life of the party, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, minx, mischief-maker, pixie, practical joker, prankster, puck, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, scamp, scapegrace, thug, trouble maker, vandal, wag
 * bad manners, badness, delinquincy, devilishness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, disobedience, elfishness, goings-on, hanky-panky, impishness, impropriety, misbehavior, mischievousness, misconduct, misdemeanor, monkey business, naughtiness, prankishness, pranksomeness, puckishness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, scampishness
 * See also Thesaurus:villain
 * See also Thesaurus:troublemaker

Derived terms

 * malicious mischief
 * mischievous
 * mischievously
 * mischievousness
 * mischief-maker

Adjectives for Mischief
desperate; secret; direst; enormous; desultory; intolerable; tormenting; malicious; wanton; mortifying; anticipated; supernatural; irreparable; impish; private; willful; stomachic.

Verbs for Mischief
actuate—; conceive—; confess—; contrive —; devise—; dog with—; instigate—; molest with—; plague with—; rectify—; share in—; work—; —agitates; —befalls; —besets; —disorganizes; -—distresses; —enrages; —grates; —harasses; —hatches; —incenses; —piques; —provokes; —rankles; -—ruffles; —torments; —trails.

Thesaurus
Discordia, Eris, abomination, atrocity, bad, bad boy, badness, bane, bankruptcy, befoulment, blight, booger, breakage, breakdown, buffoon, bugger, clash, clashing, collapse, conflict, contention, corruption, crack-up, crippling, crying evil, cutup, damage, defilement, despoliation, destruction, detriment, devil, devilishness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, diablerie, difference, difficulty, dilapidation, disablement, disaccord, disadvantage, disaffinity, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, disrepair, disruption, dissension, dissent, division, drawback, elf, elfishness, encroachment, enfant terrible, enmity, evil, foolishness, friction, funmaker, grievance, handicap, hardship, harm, havoc, high spirits, hobbling, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, hurt, hurting, ill, imp, impairment, impishness, incapacitation, incompatibility, incompatibleness, infection, infringement, inharmoniousness, inharmony, injury, inroad, jangle, jar, joker, jokester, knave, liability, limb, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, loss, loss of ground, maiming, mayhem, minx, misbehavior, mischief-maker, mischievousness, misfortune, monkey business, monkeyshines, mutilation, naughtiness, noncooperation, open conflict, outrage, pixie, playfulness, poison, pollution, practical joker, prankishness, pranksomeness, prankster, prejudice, puck, puckishness, rapscallion, rascal, rascality, rogue, roguery, roguishness, rowdy, rub, ruffian, ruin, ruination, ruinousness, sabotage, scalawag, scamp, scampishness, scapegrace, scathe, shenanigans, sickening, spoiling, sportiveness, step backward, strained relations, strife, tension, the worst, toxin, trouble, unharmoniousness, unpleasantness, variance, venom, vexation, villain, wag, waggery, waggishness, weakening, woe, wrong, youthful spirits

Etymology
From, from , meschief:, from meschever:, from mes-: + chever:, from *undefined:, from  caput:

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ilkamointi, kujeilu, ilkivalta, jäynä, pahanteko, kiusanteko
 * German: Unheil, Unfug
 * Greek:, διαβολιά
 * Greek:, διαβολιά


 * Italian: danno
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:, , ,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 促狹鬼, 促狭鬼
 * French:
 * German: Störenfried
 * Greek:, σκανδαλιάρης


 * Italian: malandrino, birbone
 * Japanese: いたずらっ子
 * Russian: озорник, шалун, проказник
 * Spanish: revoltoso,


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 惡作劇, 恶作剧
 * French:, ,
 * German: Unfug, Unheil
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: शरारत


 * Italian: vessatorio, indisponente
 * Japanese: いたずら, 悪戯
 * Russian: озорство, шалость, шалость
 * Spanish: ,


 * : sottise


 * : travesura