mischief

Meanings

Noun

reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
the quality or nature of being harmful or evil
Conduct that playfully causes petty annoyance.
A playfully annoying action.
A group or a pack of rats.
Harm or injury:
Harm or trouble caused by an agent or brought about by a particular cause.
Harm or injury:
An injury or an instance of harm or trouble caused by a person or other agent or cause.
A criminal offence defined in various ways in various jurisdictions, sometimes including causing damage to another's property.
A cause or agent of annoyance, harm or injury, especially a person who causes mischief.
The Devil; used as an expletive.
Casual and/or flirtatious sexual acts.

Verb

To do a mischief to; to harm.
To slander.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English myschef, meschef, meschief, mischef, from Old French meschief, from meschever (“to bring to grief”), from mes- (“badly”) + chever (“happen; come to a head”), from Vulgar Latin *capare, from Latin caput (“head”).

Synonyms

agitation, agitator, annoyance, antimodel, atrociousness, awfulness, bad boy, bad guy, bad news, baddie, badness, balefulness, bastard, bear, bhoy, blackguard, booger, boot boy, bounder, bovver boy, brat, brawler, breedbate, buffoon, bugger, bully, cad, charva, coistril, corruption, corruptness, criminality, cutup, dacoity, damage, delinquency, delinquincy, demolition, depravity, destruction, detriment, devil, devilishness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, disablement, disruption, elf, elfishness, enfant terrible, enormity, evil, evildoer, evilness, firebrand, fustilarian, gadfly, goings-on, hanky-panky, harlot, harm, heavy, hell-raiser, hood, hoodlum, hool, hoolie, hooligan, hothead, hurt, ill, immorality, imp, impairment, impishness, impropriety, incapacitation, inciter, initiator, injury, instigator, jackanapes, joker, jokester, kindle-coal, kindle-fire, knave, knavery, lidderon, lout, makebate, makeshift, maleficence, minx, misbehavior, mischief, mischief-maker, mischief-making, mischievousness, misconduct, miscreant, misdemeanor, monkey business, naughtiness, ne'er-do-well, nefariousness, niding, nithing, nuisance, pique, pixie, pot stirrer, practical joker, prankishness, pranksomeness, prankster, puck, puckishness, rabble rouser, rakeshame, rantipole, rapscallion, rascal, rascality, ravage, rogue, roguery, roguishness, roly-poly, rowdy, ruffian, sabotage, savagery, scab, scamp, scampishness, scapegrace, scathe, scoundrel, scoundrelry, scum, scumbag, scumminess, shenanigan, shit disturber, shit-stirrer, shitmonger, tearaway, thug, titivil, tough, trouble, troublemaker, turpitude, undesirable, undoing, unmaking, vandal, varlet, vexation, vileness, villain, villainhood, villainousness, villainry, villainy, wag, wagpastie, weakening, wickedness, wrangler, wrong, yob, yobbo

Antonyms

beneficence, decorum, gentility, gentlemanliness, probity, propriety, seemliness, sportsmanship

Scrabble Score: 18

mischief is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
mischief is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mischief is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 19

mischief is a valid Words With Friends word