Impish

Full definition of impish

Adjective

1. mischievous; of or befitting an imp.
• 1897, H. G. Wells, A Story of the Stone Age Chapter 1, Wild-eyed youngsters they were, with matted hair and little broad-nosed impish faces, covered (as some children are covered even nowadays) with a delicate down of hair.
• 1942, Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth, and other essays Chapter 20, But the antics of Mr. Moore, though impish and impudent, are, after all, so amusing and so graceful that the governess, it is said, sometimes hides behind a tree to watch.

Synonyms

• (naughtily or annoyingly playful): implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish