Mischievous

Adjective

 * 1) Causing mischief; injurious.
 * 2) Troublesome, cheeky, badly behaved.
 * Matthew had a twin brother called Edward, who was always mischievous and badly behaved.
 * 1) Troublesome, cheeky, badly behaved.
 * Matthew had a twin brother called Edward, who was always mischievous and badly behaved.

Synonyms

 * harmful, hurtful, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, destructive; see also Thesaurus:harmful
 * badly-behaved, naughty

Derived terms

 * mischievously
 * mischievousness

Adverbs for Mischievous
incorrigibly; innocently; delightfully; teas- ingly; harmlessly; viciously; deliberately; childishly; merrily; thoughtlessly; maliciously; vengefully; terribly; intolerably; vexatiously; maddeningly; deliberately; studiously; craftily; shamefully; desperately; secretly; furtively; wantonly; irreparably; impishly; elfishly; purposely; wilfully; openly; defiantly; obstinately; persistently; perniciously; noxiously; naughtily; unbearably; poisonously.

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

Etymology
From meschevous:, from  meschever:, from mes-: + chever: (from chef:).

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 淘氣, 淘气
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * Italian: piantagrane, attaccabrighe, casinista


 * Kurdish: ziyander, zererder
 * Lithuanian:
 * Portuguese: bagunceiro, sapeca (Braz.)
 * Spanish:, travieso


 * Arabic: شرير, مؤذ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 頑皮, 顽皮,  ,
 * Finnish: ilkikurinen, pahankurinen, pahanilkinen
 * French:, ,
 * German: unartig,,  ,
 * Italian:, , malizioso


 * Japanese: わんぱく,,  やんちゃ,  行儀が悪い
 * Korean: 장난꾸러기의
 * Kurdish: şûm, neqet, destmatî, venehewiyayî
 * Portuguese: levado,
 * Russian: озорной, непослушный,  шаловливый
 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * mischevious