When he's going to make some smart aleck remark, you can see him fighting back an impish grin while he's working out the wording.
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Impish
/ˈɪmpɪʃ/
Synonyms for "impish" (45 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (14)
elfishelvishfoolishfrolicsomefull of mischiefhigh spiritedhigh-spiritedimpiouskittenishknavishmischief-loving
Related words (22)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
4 entriesaesthetic descriptorappearance descriptorcharacter traitpersonality attribute
More specific
6 entrieselfin lookelfish auramischievous gesturemischievous grinmischievous lookpixie look
Collocations
5 entriesimpish behaviorimpish charmimpish grinimpish lookimpish smile
Inflections
2 entriesmore impishmost impish
Derivations
2 entriessimilar
1 entriesSample sentences
6 total sentences available.
That impish man is a preeminent economist.
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That impish man over there is my ex-husband.
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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.
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