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| Main Entry: | naughty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bad, misbehaved |
| Synonyms: | annoying, contrary, disobedient, disorderly, evil, fiendish, fractious, froward, headstrong, impish, indecorous, insubordinate, intractable, mischievous, obstreperous, perverse, playful, raunchy, recalcitrant, refractory, rough, rowdy, sinful, teasing, tough, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, wanton, wayward, wicked, willful, worthless, wrong, badly behaved, exasperating, rascally |
| Antonyms: | good, obedient, behaved, controlled |
| Main Entry: | naughty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obscene, vulgar |
| Synonyms: | adult, bawdy, blue*, dirty*, hot*, improper, lascivious, lewd, loose*, off-color*, pornographic, purple*, ribald, risqué, steamy |
| Antonyms: | clean, good, moral, pure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disobedient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | defiant, mischievous |
| Synonyms: | contrary, contumacious, disorderly, fractious, froward, headstrong, insubordinate, intractable, naughty, noncompliant, obstreperous, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, undisciplined, unruly, wayward, willful, nonobservant, resistive, uncompliant |
| Antonyms: | nice, obedient, observant, accepting, behaving, submitting |
| Main Entry: | elfin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mischievous; small |
| Synonyms: | delicate, devilish, disobedient, elfish, frolicsome, impish, little, minute, naughty, petite, playful, puckish, puny, slight, sprightly, tiny, misbehaving, prankish, rascally |
| Main Entry: | errant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong; deviant |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, deviating, devious, erratic, erring, fallible, heretic, meandering, mischievous, miscreant, naughty, rambling, ranging, roaming, roving, sinning, stray, straying, unorthodox, unreliable, wandering, wayward, drifting, errable, misbehaving, off straight and narrow, offending, shifting |
| Notes: | an errand is a short trip that is taken for a specific purpose; arrant means thoroughgoing - downright - out-and-out - extreme - notorious; errant means wandering or roving especially in search of adventure - deviating or straying from an appointed course - straying from the proper standards - moving aimlessly or irregularly |
| Antonyms: | correct, righteous |
| Main Entry: | impish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mischievous |
| Synonyms: | casual, devil-may-care*, devilish, elfin, fiendish, flippant, free and easy, fresh, frolicsome, giddy, jaunty, naughty, offhand, pert, playful, puckish, saucy*, sportive, waggish, elvish, pixieish, prankish, rascally |
| Antonyms: | subdued, behaved, unmischievous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | insubordinate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rebellious |
| Synonyms: | contrary, contumacious, defiant, disaffected, disobedient, disorderly, factious, fractious, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, naughty, perverse, recalcitrant, refractory, riotous, seditious, treacherous, turbulent, undisciplined, ungovernable, unruly, dissentious, uncompliant, uncomplying |
| Antonyms: | compliant, obedient, behaved |
| Main Entry: | lewd |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, indecent |
| Synonyms: | X-rated*, bawdy, blue, coarse, erotic, fast*, filthy*, gross*, hard-core*, immodest, immoral, improper, impure, incontinent, indelicate, lascivious, lecherous, libertine, libidinous, licentious, loose*, lustful, naughty, obscene, off-color*, pornographic, profligate, questionable, racy*, rakish, ribald, risqué, salacious, scandalous, scurrilous, shameless, smutty*, suggestive, taboo, unclean, unconventional, vile, wanton, wicked, foul-mouthed, in bad taste, unchaste, unvirtuous |
| Antonyms: | clean, decent, moral |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mischievous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | devilish, wicked |
| Synonyms: | arch, artful, bad, bothersome, damaging, dangerous, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, foxy*, frolicsome, harmful, hazardous, holy terror*, hurtful, ill, impish, injurious, insidious, irksome, malicious, malignant, naughty, nocuous, perilous, pernicious, playful, precarious, puckish, rascal, risky, rude, sinful, sly, spiteful, sportive, teasing, tricky, troublesome, vexatious, vicious, wayward, dickens, exasperating, ill-behaved, misbehaving, rascally, vexing |
| Antonyms: | good, nice, obedient, behaved |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | raunchy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lewd, obscene |
| Synonyms: | X-rated*, bawdy, dirty, erotic, filthy*, gross*, improper, lascivious, lecherous, lustful, naughty, off-color*, pornographic, racy*, risqué, smutty, suggestive, taboo, vulgar, wicked, foul-mouthed, hard- core, in bad taste, sexually explicit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ribald |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, obscene |
| Synonyms: | base, bawdy, blue*, coarse, devilish, earthy, fast*, filthy*, gross*, indecent, indecorous, juicy, lascivious, lewd, licentious, naughty, off-color, purple*, racy, raunchy, raw*, risqué*, rogue, rough, rude, salacious, salty, scabrous, scurrilous, sly, smutty, spicy*, unbecoming, foul-mouthed, low-down and dirty, out of line, rascally |
| Antonyms: | chaste, clean, decent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | risqué |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | improper, referring to sex |
| Synonyms: | X-rated*, bawdy*, blue*, breezy, crude, daring, dirty, earthy, erotic, filthy*, foul, gross*, hot*, immodest, immoral, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, indiscreet, inelegant, lewd, lurid, naughty, obscene, off-color, offensive, provocative, purple*, racy, raw, ribald, salacious, salty, shady, smart, smutty, spicy*, suggestive, unrefined, vulgar, wanton, warm, wicked, amoral, off-base, out-of-line, sizzling |
| Antonyms: | acceptable, decent, moral, proper |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | roguish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deceitful; mischievous |
| Synonyms: | crafty, crooked, cunning, deceptive, devilish, dishonest, fraudulent, impish, knavish, lying, naughty, playful, puckish, shifty, slick, sly, sneaky, tricky, underhand, underhanded, unprincipled, untruthful, beguiling, deceiving, rascally |
| Main Entry: | undisciplined |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncontrolled |
| Synonyms: | defiant, disorderly, headstrong, inconsistent, insubordinate, mischievous, naughty, noncompliant, unrestrained, unruly, untrained, wayward, lacking self-control, ungoverned |
| Main Entry: | elfish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mischievous |
| Synonyms: | elfin, impish, naughty, prankish |
| Main Entry: | puckish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impish |
| Synonyms: | devilish, mischievous, naughty, playful, whimsical, pixyish, prankish |
| Main Entry: | vulgar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rude, offensive |
| Synonyms: | X-rated*, base, blue*, boorish, cheap, coarse, common, contemptible, crude, dirty, disgusting, dishonorable, filthy, fractious, gross*, hard-core*, ignoble, impolite, improper, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, inferior, low, malicious, nasty, naughty, obscene, odious, off-color, profane, raw, repulsive, ribald, risqué, rough, scatological, slippery, smutty, sordid, suggestive, tasteless, tawdry, uncouth, unmannerly, unrefined, unworthy, villainous, sneaking, soft-core |
| Antonyms: | decent, inoffensive, nice, polite, refined |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wicked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt, bad |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, abominable, arch, atrocious, bad news*, base, contemptible, debased, degenerate, depraved, devilish, dissolute, egregious, evil, fiendish, flagitious, foul, gross, guilty, heartless, heinous, immoral, impious, impish, incorrigible, indecent, iniquitous, irreligious, mean, mischievous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, profane, reprobate, rotten, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, unethical, unprincipled, vicious, vile, villainous, wayward, worthless, amoral, low-down, unrighteous |
| Antonyms: | decent, good, moral, nice |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | improper |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, immoral |
| Synonyms: | blue*, dirty, impolite, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, lewd, malodorous, naughty, risqué, rough, salacious, suggestive, unbecoming, unconventional, unethical, ungodly, unjust, unseemly, untoward, wrong, wrongful, unequitable, unrighteous, unrightful |
| Antonyms: | decent, formal, good, moral, proper, uncorrupt |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | racy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | risqué, vulgar |
| Synonyms: | bawdy, blue*, broad, erotic, immodest, indecent, indelicate, lewd, lurid, naughty, off-color*, purple*, shady*, smutty*, spicy*, suggestive, wicked |
| Antonyms: | clean, modest, moral, upright |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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