Word Meanings - MISCHIEFFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Mischievous. Foote.

Related words: (words related to MISCHIEFFUL)

• FOOTED
  1. Having a foot or feet; shaped in the foot. "Footed like a goat." Grew. Note: Footed is often used in composition in the sense of having feet; as, fourfooted beasts. 2. Having a foothold; established. Our king . . . is footed in this
• MISCHIEVOUS
  Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child. "Most mischievous foul sin." Shak. This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably mischievous to society. South.
• FOURFOOTED
  Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.
• BAREFOOTED
  Having the feet bare.
• TIGER-FOOTED
  Hastening to devour; furious.
• FIN-FOOTED
  Having palmate feet. Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe.
• LIGHT-FOOT; LIGHT-FOOTED
  Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris. Tennyson.
• ROUGH-FOOTED
  Feather-footed; as, a rough-footed dove. Sherwood.
• LOBE-FOOTED
  Lobiped.
• TICKLE-FOOTED
  Uncertain; inconstant; slippery. Beau. & Fl.
• SPLAYFOOT; SPLAYFOOTED
  Having a splayfoot or splayfeet.
• CLEFT-FOOTED
  Having a cloven foot.
• FLAT-FOOTED
  1. Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of the instep. 2. Firm-footed; determined.
• LEAF-FOOTED
  Having leaflike expansions on the legs; -- said of certain insects; as, the leaf-footed bug .
• TURTLE-FOOTED
  Slow-footed. "Turtle-footed Peace." Ford.
• SURE-FOOTED
  Not liable to stumble or fall; as, a sure-footed horse.
• WEB-FOOTED
  Having webbed feet; palmiped; as, a goose or a duck is a web- footed fowl.
• WING-FOOTED
  1. Having wings attached to the feet; as, wing-footed Mercury; hence, swift; moving with rapidity; fleet. Drayton. Having part or all of the feet adapted for flying. Having the anterior lobes of the foot so modified as to form a pair of winglike
• CLOVEN-FOOTED; CLOVEN-HOOFED
  Having the foot or hoof divided into two parts, as the ox.
• SIX-FOOTER
  One who is six feet tall.