All playful synonyms
play·ful
P p adj playful
- gasser — Herbert Spencer, 1888–1963, U.S. physiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1944.
- naughty — improper, tasteless, indecorous, or indecent: a naughty word.
- frisky — lively; frolicsome; playful.
- grooving — a long, narrow cut or indentation in a surface, as the cut in a board to receive the tongue of another board (tongue-and-groove joint) a furrow, or a natural indentation on an organism.
- boffo — very good; highly successful
- ill-behaved — 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties. 2. Software that bypasses the defined operating system interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software. In the IBM PC/mess-dos world, there is a folk theorem (nearly true) to the effect that (owing to gross inadequacies and performance penalties in the OS interface) all interesting applications are ill-behaved. See also bare metal. Opposite: well-behaved, compare PC-ism.
- impish — mischievous.
- facetious — not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- flippant — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- dickens — Charles (John Huffam), pen name Boz. 1812–70, English novelist, famous for the humour and sympathy of his characterization and his criticism of social injustice. His major works include The Pickwick Papers (1837), Oliver Twist (1839), Nicholas Nickleby (1839), Old Curiosity Shop (1840–41), Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), David Copperfield (1850), Bleak House (1853), Little Dorrit (1857), and Great Expectations (1861)
adjective playful
- jaunty — easy and sprightly in manner or bearing: to walk with a jaunty step.
- frolicsome — merrily playful; full of fun.
- zesty — full of zest; piquant: a zesty salad dressing.
- elvish — Of or having to do with elves.
- zingy — full of zing; lively; zesty; exciting: a zingy new musical comedy.