naughty

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: naugh=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

naughty, a. 

•  Having little or nothing.  [1913 Webster]

  "[Men] that needy be and naughty, help them with thy goods."  [1913 Webster]
•  Worthless; bad; good for nothing.  [1913 Webster]

  "The other basket had very naughty figs."  [1913 Webster]
•  hence, corrupt; wicked.  [1913 Webster]

  "So shines a good deed in a naughty world."  [1913 Webster]
•  Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper conduct; as, a naughty child.  [1913 Webster]

  " This word is now seldom used except in the latter sense, as applied to children, or in sportive censure."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

naughty, adj. (naughtier, naughtiest)
1 (esp. of children) disobedient; badly behaved.
2 colloq. joc. indecent.
3 archaic wicked.

Derivative

naughtily adv. naughtiness n.

Etymology

ME f. NAUGHT + -Y(1)

THESAURUS

naughty

abominable, arrant, atrocious, bad, base, bawdy, black, blamable, blameworthy, blue, contrary, criminal, damnable, dark, defiant, devilish, dirty, disgraceful, disobedient, disorderly, disruptive, evil, execrable, flagitious, flagrant, foul, fractious, frolicsome, froward, headstrong, heinous, ill-behaved, immoral, impish, improper, indecent, indecorous, indisciplined, infamous, iniquitous, insubordinate, intractable, knavish, lawless, lewd, low, misbehaving, mischievous, monstrous, nefarious, nonconforming, not respectable, obscene, obstinate, obstreperous, off color, off-base, offensive, out-of-line, paw, peccant, perverse, playful, pornographic, puckish, rank, raunchy, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, reprehensible, reprobate, ribald, risque, roguish, rowdy, rowdyish, ruffianly, scampish, scandalous, self-willed, shameful, sinful, smutty, transgressive, unbehaving, uncomplying, undisciplined, unduteous, undutiful, unforgivable, ungovernable, unmanageable, unpardonable, unruly, unspeakable, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, violative, vulgar, wayward, wicked, willful, wrong

ROGET THESAURUS

naughty

Vice

N vice, evil-doing, evil courses, wrongdoing, wickedness, viciousness, iniquity, peccability, demerit, sin, Adam, old Adam, offending Adam, immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast, obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution, hardness of heart, brutality, corruption, knavery, profligacy, flagrancy, atrocity, cannibalism, lesbianism, Sadism, infirmity, weakness, weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection, error, weak side, foible, failing, failure, crying sin, besetting sin, defect, deficiency, cloven foot, lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den, gusto picaresco, fault, crime, criminality, sinner, brothel, gambling house, joint, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house, vicious, sinful, sinning, wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal, naughty, incorrect, unduteous, undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper, dissolute, profligate, scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, disgraceful, recreant, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, discreditable, disreputable, Sadistic, base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous, flagrant, flagitious, atrocious, incarnate, accursed, Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish, miscreated, misbegotten, demoralized, corrupt, depraved, evil-minded, evil-disposed, ill-conditioned, malevolent, heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue, unconscionable, sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity, incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for, culpable, reprehensible, unjustifiable, indefensible, inexcusable, inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible, weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect, indiscrete, demoralizing, degrading, wrong, sinfully, without excuse, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, the trail of the serpent is over them all, to sanction vice and hunt decorum down.