Antonyms for mischief
ˈmɪs tʃɪfmis·chief

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1. mischiefnoun

   Harm or evil caused by an agent or brought about by a particular cause.

   Synonyms:
   devilment, life of the party, prankster, hoodlum, weakening, demolition, bad boy, wag, evil, imp, detriment, little rascal, scamp, scathe, injury, knave, misbehavior, vandal, agitation, hood, hooligan, badness, jokester, scampishness, deviltry, impropriety, naughtiness, monkey business, disruption, annoyance, undoing, pixie, corruption, joker, practical joker, puckishness, little monkey, devil, hurt, rogue, ill, scapegrace, sabotage, bad manners, goings-on, damage, hell-raiser, little devil, elfishness, cutup, disobedience, harm, enfant terrible, hanky-panky, bugger, incapacitation, ravage, rascal, misdemeanor, disablement, mischief-maker, buffoon, devilry, mischievousness, roguery, trouble, trouble maker, rascality, minx, elf, puck, fun-maker, impishness, misconduct, vexation, wrong, rowdy, delinquincy, pranksomeness, thug, rapscallion, unmaking, nuisance, pique, ruffian, impairment, roguishness, booger, devilishness, destruction, prankishness

2. mischiefnoun

   One who causes mischief. In a milder sense, one who causes petty annoyances. mischief-maker.

   Synonyms:
   bad manners, hood, minx, deviltry, bad boy, damage, sabotage, trouble, pique, practical joker, badness, puck, mischief-maker, rascal, weakening, joker, little devil, scampishness, enfant terrible, rowdy, hoodlum, agitation, life of the party, harm, cutup, detriment, ill, unmaking, imp, disobedience, puckishness, hooligan, impairment, devil, incapacitation, hell-raiser, naughtiness, devilry, roguery, scamp, trouble maker, scapegrace, rapscallion, fun-maker, goings-on, booger, nuisance, delinquincy, rogue, elfishness, pixie, ruffian, corruption, buffoon, vandal, undoing, ravage, misbehavior, little monkey, misdemeanor, scathe, impishness, disruption, evil, thug, little rascal, misconduct, pranksomeness, devilment, prankishness, wag, prankster, monkey business, demolition, impropriety, hanky-panky, annoyance, rascality, knave, jokester, devilishness, roguishness, injury, destruction, mischievousness, hurt, vexation, wrong, disablement, bugger, elf

3. mischiefnoun

   Vexatious or annoying conduct.

   Synonyms:
   life of the party, imp, hurt, impairment, scapegrace, disablement, damage, puckishness, monkey business, cutup, elf, sabotage, joker, disruption, ill, rowdy, little devil, bad boy, wrong, vandal, rapscallion, little monkey, deviltry, roguishness, destruction, naughtiness, devilry, injury, little rascal, hanky-panky, fun-maker, nuisance, hood, undoing, bad manners, agitation, pique, demolition, disobedience, practical joker, prankster, puck, badness, enfant terrible, scampishness, jokester, ravage, rascality, unmaking, mischievousness, rascal, bugger, buffoon, wag, goings-on, impishness, impropriety, scathe, evil, vexation, annoyance, trouble, booger, rogue, misconduct, scamp, pixie, misbehavior, delinquincy, devil, mischief-maker, roguery, weakening, hooligan, knave, hoodlum, thug, corruption, ruffian, devilishness, devilment, minx, harm, trouble maker, prankishness, elfishness, hell-raiser, pranksomeness, incapacitation, misdemeanor, detriment

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mischief

   Injury (Latin in, not, and jus, juris, right, law) signifies primarily something done contrary to law or right; hence, something contrary to some standard of right or good; whatever reduces the value, utility, beauty, or desirableness of anything is an injury to that thing; of persons, whatever is so done as to operate adversely to one in his person, rights, property, or reputation is an injury; the word is especially used of whatever mars the integrity of the body or causes pain; as, when rescued from the wreck his injuries were found to be very slight. Injury is the general term including all the rest. Damage (Latin damnum, loss) is that which occasions loss to the possessor; hence, any impairment of value, often with the suggestion of fault on the part of the one causing it; damage reduces value, utility, or beauty; detriment (Latin deterere, to rub or wear away) is similar in meaning, but far milder. Detriment may affect value only; damage always affects real worth or utility; as a rule, the slightest use of an article by a purchaser operates to its detriment if again offered for sale, tho the article may have received not the slightest damage. Damage is partial; loss is properly absolute as far as it is predicated at all; the loss of a ship implies that it is gone beyond recovery; the loss of the rudder is a damage to the ship; but since the loss of a part still leaves a part, we may speak of a partial or a total loss. Evil commonly suggests suffering or sin, or both; as, the evils of poverty, the social evil. Harm is closely synonymous with injury; it may apply to body, mind, or estate, but always affects real worth, while injury may concern only estimated value. A hurt is an injury that causes pain, physical or mental; a slight hurt may be no real harm. Mischief is disarrangement, trouble, or harm usually caused by some voluntary agent, with or without injurious intent; a child's thoughtless sport may do great mischief; wrong is harm done with evil intent. An outrage combines insult and injury. Compare synonyms for BLEMISH; CRIMINAL; INJUSTICE.

   Antonyms:
   advantage, amelioration, benefit, blessing, boon, help, improvement, remedy, service, utility

   Synonyms:
   blemish, damage, detriment, disadvantage, evil, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, injustice, loss, outrage, prejudice, wrong

   Preposition:
   The injury of the cause; an injury to the structure; injury by fire; by or from collision, interference, etc.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. mischief

   Antonyms:
   compensation, good-turn, benefit, favor, gratification

   Synonyms:
   damage, hurt, detriment, disservice, annoyance, injury, ill-turn, damage, barm

Matched Categories

1. • Evil

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. mischief, mischief-making, mischievousness, deviltry, devilry, devilment, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigannoun

   reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others

   Synonyms:
   slipperiness, naughtiness, shiftiness, chicane, wile, devilment, rascality, mischievousness, maleficence, trickery, whimsicality, devilry, mischief-making, impishness, prankishness, balefulness, shenanigan, chicanery, trickiness, roguery, guile, deviltry, roguishness, puckishness, badness

2. maleficence, mischief, balefulnessnoun

   the quality or nature of being harmful or evil

   Synonyms:
   maleficence, mischievousness, roguishness, roguery, shenanigan, mischief-making, deviltry, devilment, rascality, balefulness, devilry

How to use mischief in a sentence?

1. William Cobbett:

   It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.

2. JOHN TRAPP (1601-1699):

   The devil and the damned have punishment without pity, misery without mercy, sorrow without succor, crying without comfort, mischief without measure, torments without end and past imagination. John Trapp

3. R Chamberlain:

   Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.

4. Henry Fielding:

   When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

5. Daisy Bates:

   What plays the mischief with the truth is that men will insist upon the universal application of a temporary feeling or opinion.

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