Mischief

Quick meaning: Mischief is a noun meaning (uncountable) Conduct that playfully causes petty annoyance.

Meaning

(uncountable) Conduct that playfully causes petty annoyance.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A playfully annoying action.
2. (collective) A group or a pack of rats.
3. (law) A criminal offence defined in various ways in various jurisdictions, sometimes including causing damage to another's property.
4. (euphemistic) The Devil; used as an expletive.
5. (Australia) Casual and/or flirtatious sexual acts.
6. (archaic) Harm or injury:
7. (archaic, countable) A cause or agent of annoyance, harm or injury, especially a person who causes mischief.

Example Sentences

Drink led to mischief.

John's mischief, tying his shoelaces together, irked George at first.

What the mischief are you? and how the mischief did you get here, and where in thunder did you come from?

Epimetheus was scatter-brained and a mischief to men for having taken the woman [Pandora] that Zeus had formed.

Word Forms

• mischiefs
• mischiefing
• mischiefed
• mischieve

Synonyms for mischief

Depending on context, synonyms include agitation, annoyance, corruption, damage, demolition, destruction.

Antonyms for mischief

Common opposites include decorum, gentlemanliness, gentility, seemliness, sportsmanship, probity.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mischievousness, roguery, roguishness, devilment, rascality, shenanigan.

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