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adj
Resembling a devil.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: demoniac, demonic, diabolic, diabolical, hellish, infernal, fiendish, satanic, satanical, unhallowed, cacodaemoniacal, daemonical, demoniacal, demonical, demonish, demonlike, demonly, devilish, fallen angelic, fiendlike
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Evil, wicked.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: atrocious, deuced, malicious, mischievous, nefarious, ogreish, reprobate, abandoned, arrant, bad, bad apple, bad seed, baleful, scurrilous, baneful, base, black-hearted, dark, deleterious, demonic, depraved, despicable, detrimental, devilish, diabolical, evil, evil-minded, facinorous, flagitious, harmful, heinous, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, immoral, incorrigible, iniquitous, iniquous, injurious, knavish, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malign, malignant, naughty, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, no-good, peccaminous, pernicious, reprehensible, satanic, scathful, sinful, sinister, sordid, sullen, ungodly, unholy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Roguish or mischievous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: cheeky, impish, naughty
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Excessive, extreme.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Synonyms: lavish, wanton, devilish, excessive, de trop, extravagant, extreme, immoderate, intemperate, nimious, obscene, overmuch, overweening, over the top, prodigal, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Devilishly; very; exceedingly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, informal
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelian, mephistophelean
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
playful in an appealingly bold way
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: rascally, roguish
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
in a playfully devilish manner
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: devilishly
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle English develissh, develyssh, equivalent to devil + -ish. Cognate with Saterland Frisian düvelsk, düüwelsk (“devilish”), West Frisian duvelsk (“devilish”), Dutch duivels (“devilish”), German Low German düvelsk (“devilish”), German teuflisch (“devilish”), Danish djævelsk (“devilish”), Swedish djävulsk (“devilish”), Norwegian djevelsk (“devilish”).
Across languages
80 source translations are retained for this English entry.
