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Definitions for Mischief
[1] conduct or activity that playfully causes petty annoyance.
[2] a tendency or disposition to tease, vex, or annoy.
[3] a vexatious or annoying action.
[4] harm or trouble, especially as a result of an agent or cause.
[5] an injury or evil caused by a person or other agent or cause.
[6] a cause or source of harm, evil, or annoyance.
[7] the devil.
[8] wayward but not malicious behaviour, usually of children, that causes trouble, irritation, etc
[9] a playful inclination to behave in this way or to tease or disturb
[10] injury or harm caused by a person or thing
[11] a person, esp a child, who is mischievous
[12] a source of trouble, difficulty, etc floods are a great mischief to the farmer
Words related to Mischief
playfulness, evil, wrongdoing, vandalism, misconduct, prank, sabotage, catastrophe, harm, misbehavior, misfortune, roguery, outrage, injury, mischievousness, hurt, wrong, gag, rascality, naughtiness
Words nearby Mischief
miscellanist, miscellany, misch metal, mischance, mischanter, mischief, mischief night, mischief-maker, mischievous, mischoose, miscible
Origin of Mischief
1250–1300; Middle English meschef < Old French, noun derivative of meschever to end badly, come to grief. See mis-1, achieve
Word origin for Mischief
C13: from Old French meschief disaster, from meschever to meet with calamity; from mes- mis- 1 + chever to reach an end, from chef end, chief
Synonyms for Mischief
catastrophe, evil, misconduct, playfulness, prank, sabotage, vandalism, wrongdoing, atrocity, devilment, devilry, fault, friskiness, frolicsomeness, gag, harm, hurt, ill, impishness, injury, misbehavior, mischievousness, misfortune, naughtiness, outrage, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigans, sportiveness, transgression, waggery, waggishness, wrong, dirty trick, funny business, high jinks, misdoing, monkey business, waywardness