NAUGHTY meaning: Misbehaving or behaving improperly; disobedient

We found 31 dictionaries that define the word naughty:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

naughty: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
naughty: Merriam-Webster
naughty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
naughty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
naughty: Collins English Dictionary
naughty: Vocabulary.com
Naughty, naughty: Wordnik
naughty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
naughty: Wiktionary
naughty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
naughty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
naughty: Infoplease Dictionary
Naughty, naughty: Dictionary.com
naughty: Online Etymology Dictionary
naughty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Naughty (Chaka Khan album), Naughty (album), Naughty (film), Naughty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Naughty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
naughty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
naughty: Rhymezone
naughty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
naughty: FreeDictionary.org
naughty: Mnemonic Dictionary
naughty: TheFreeDictionary.com
naughty: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)

naughty: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

naughty: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

NAUGHTY: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

naughty, naughty, naughty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Naughty, The Naughty: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Mischievous; tending to misbehave or act badly (especially of a child).
▸ adjective:  Sexually provocative; now in weakened sense, risqué, cheeky.
▸ adjective:  (now rare, archaic) Evil, wicked, morally reprehensible.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Bad, worthless, substandard.
▸ verb:  To perform sexual acts upon.

Similar:

mischievous, racy, risque, sexy, bad, gamy, gamey, juicy, blue, spicy, more...

Opposite:

nice, good, kind, benevolent, benign

Types:

bad, evil, wicked, sinful, corrupt, depraved, immoral, vicious, villainous, more...

Phrases:

naughty words, Naughty Nineties, naughty bits, naughty figs, naughty step, more...

Adjectives:

little, real, very, dreadful, more, plain, dear, extra, awful, dretful, tiny

Colors:

red, black, burgundy, crimson, scarlet, more...