mischievous
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mis·chie·vous
(mĭs′chə-vəs)adj.
1. Causing mischief.
2. Playful in a naughty or teasing way.
3. Troublesome; irritating: a mischievous prank.
4. Causing harm, injury, or damage: mischievous rumors and falsehoods.
[Middle English mischevous, from mischef, mischief; see mischief.]
mis′chie·vous·ly adv.
mis′chie·vous·ness n.
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mischievous
(ˈmɪstʃɪvəs)adj
1. inclined to acts of mischief
2. teasing; slightly malicious: a mischievous grin.
3. causing or intended to cause harm: a mischievous plot.
ˈmischievously adv
ˈmischievousness n
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mis•chie•vous
(ˈmɪs tʃə vəs)adj.
1. maliciously or playfully annoying.
2. causing annoyance, harm, or trouble.
3. roguishly or slyly teasing, as a glance.
4. harmful; injurious.
mis′chie•vous•ly, adv.
mis′chie•vous•ness, n.
pron: The pronunciation of mischievous as (mɪsˈtʃi vi əs) is usually considered nonstandard, although a spelling mischievious, which reflects this pronunciation, had some currency between the 16th and 19th centuries.
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Adj. | 1. | mischievous - naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank" playful - full of fun and high spirits; "playful children just let loose from school" |
2. | mischievous - deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and falsehoods" harmful - causing or capable of causing harm; "too much sun is harmful to the skin"; "harmful effects of smoking" |
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mischievous
adjective
1. naughty, bad, troublesome, wayward, exasperating, playful, rascally, impish, roguish, vexatious, puckish, frolicsome, arch, ludic (literary), sportive, badly behaved She rocks back and forth on her chair like a mischievous child.
2. malicious, damaging, vicious, destructive, harmful, troublesome, malignant, detrimental, hurtful, pernicious, spiteful, deleterious, injurious a mischievous campaign by the press
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mischievous
adjective1. Causing harm or injury:
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Translations
مُؤْذٍمُؤْذٍ، مُضِر
nezbedný
drillesyguartig
kujeileva
vragolast
csintalan
hrekkjóttur; ódæll
いたずら好きな
짓궂은
išdaigus
nerātns
poreden
busig
เกเร
tinh quái
mischievous
[ˈmɪstʃɪvəs] ADJ1. (= impish) [person, smile] → pícaro; (= naughty) [child, kitten] → travieso
the mischievous tricks the children used to get up to → las travesuras que los niños solían hacer
the mischievous tricks the children used to get up to → las travesuras que los niños solían hacer
2. (= malicious) [person, glance, rumour] → malicioso
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
mischievous
[ˈmɪstʃɪvəs] adj (= naughty) [child] → coquin(e)
(= playful) [smile] → espiègle
(= malicious) [campaign, story] → malveillant(e)
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
mischievous
adj
(= roguish, playful) expression, smile → schelmisch, verschmitzt, spitzbübisch; a mischievous person → ein Schlawiner m; a mischievous child → ein Schlingel or Racker m; her son is really mischievous → ihr Sohn ist ein Schlingel or hat nur Unfug im Sinn; what mischievous pranks are you up to now? → welche üblen Streiche heckst du jetzt aus?; a mischievous elf → eine Elfe, die Schabernack treibt
; (= physically disabling) blow → verletzendCollins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
mischievous
[ˈmɪstʃɪvəs] adj (roguish) → malizioso/a; (child) → birichino/a; (harmful) → pieno/a di cattiveriamischievous rumours (troublemaking) → malignità fpl
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
mischief
(ˈmistʃif) noun1. action or behaviour (especially of children) that causes small troubles or annoyance to others. That boy is always up to some mischief.
2. evil, damage or harm.
make mischief to cause trouble etc.
ˈmischievous (-vəs) adjectivea mischievous child.
ˈmischievously adverbKernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
mischievous
→ مُؤْذٍ nezbedný drillesyg schelmisch σκανταλιάρης travieso kujeileva espiègle vragolast dispettoso いたずら好きな 짓궂은 schalks rampete szkodliwy malicioso озорной busig เกเร yaramaz tinh quái 恶作剧的Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
mischievous
adj traviesoEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.