Naughty

//ˈnɔːti//

Synonyms for "naughty" (137 found)

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Closest matches (28)

Adjective(1 words)
blue
Adjective(1 words)
dirty

Strong matches (41)

Adjective(3 words)
gameygamyjuicy

Related words (68)

Adjective(3 words)
racyrisquespicy
Adjective(1 words)
risqué

Related word relations

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6 relation types

Antonyms

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Synonyms

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derived

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derived from

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related to

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similar

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Translations

152 translations across 51 languages.

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Arabic

4 entries
  • شَقِيّ adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • شِرِّير adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • غَيْر مُطِيع adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • مُؤْذٍ adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Armenian

1 entries
  • չար adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • yaramaz adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Belarusian

1 entries
  • непаслухмя́ны adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Bulgarian

3 entries
  • невъзпитан adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • немирен adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • непослушен adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Catalan

2 entries
  • entremaliat adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • trapella adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Central Kurdish

1 entries
  • ناڕەحەت adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries
  • 曳 adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries
  • 淘氣 /淘气 adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • 調皮 /调皮 adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • 頑皮 /顽皮 adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Czech

4 entries
  • choulostivý adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)
  • neposlušný adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • nestoudný adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)
  • nestydatý adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)

Danish

4 entries
  • fræk adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)
  • slem adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • uartig adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • uartig adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)

Dutch

4 entries
  • brutaal adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)
  • gedurfd adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)
  • gewaagd adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)
  • ondeugend adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Esperanto

2 entries
  • fia adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • petola adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Finnish

3 entries
  • ilkeä adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • tuhma adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • tuhma adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)

French

4 entries
  • malicieux adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • malin adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • méchant adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • osé adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)

Galician

1 entries
  • piardeiro adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)

Georgian

1 entries
  • ცელქი adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

German

4 entries
  • dreist adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • frech adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • frech adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)
  • unanständig adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)

Greek

1 entries
  • άτακτος adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • שׁוֹבָב adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Hindi

2 entries
  • नटखट adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • नटखट adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • csibész adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • csintalan adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • csintalan adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)
  • dévaj adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • nakal adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Irish

1 entries
  • dalba adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Italian

4 entries
  • birichino adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • furbetto adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • malizioso adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • osceno adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)

Japanese

4 entries
  • いたずらな adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • きわどい adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)
  • みだらな adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)
  • やんちゃな adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Kabuverdianu

2 entries
  • abuzadu adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • abuzóde adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Khiamniungan Naga

1 entries
  • ūkhīeh adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Korean

1 entries
  • 장난꾸러기의 adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Latin

1 entries
  • improbus adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Latvian

1 entries
  • nerātns adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Macedonian

4 entries
  • немирен adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • непослушен adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • палав adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • палав adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)

Malayalam

1 entries
  • വികൃതി adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Māori

2 entries
  • haututū adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • rawemākoi adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Norwegian

3 entries
  • frekk adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)
  • uforskamma adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)
  • uskikkelig adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Persian

3 entries
  • آلپر adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • الپر adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • تخس adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Plautdietsch

1 entries
  • goaschtrich adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Polish

3 entries
  • niegrzeczny adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • nieposłuszny adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • psotny adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Portuguese

3 entries
  • levado adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • safado adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)
  • travesso adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Romanian

3 entries
  • deocheat adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)
  • neastâmpărat adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • obraznic adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Russian

4 entries
  • бессты́жий adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)
  • непослу́шный adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • озорно́й adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • озорно́й adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • crosta adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Serbo-Croatian

3 entries
  • neumesan adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)
  • opsen adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)
  • pikantan adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)

Spanish

4 entries
  • cachondo adj (risqué, sexually suggestive)
  • malcriado adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • maldoso adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • maleducado adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Swedish

1 entries
  • stygg adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Tagalog

2 entries
  • makulit adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • pilyo adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Thai

2 entries
  • ซน adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • ดื้อ adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Tibetan

1 entries
  • སྒྲིག་ཉེས་པོ adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Turkish

4 entries
  • bacaksız adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • haylaz adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • haşarı adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)
  • yaramaz adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • неслухня́ний adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • hư adj (bad; tending to misbehave or act badly)

Sample sentences

21 total sentences available.

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You are naughty.

Source: tatoeba (16789)

There are a handful of naughty boys in my neighborhood.

Source: tatoeba (18676)

How naughty you are! Stop bothering me!

Source: tatoeba (24959)

The naughty boy got lost and looked around.

Source: tatoeba (28746)

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