prankishness
Impish behavior tendency
Prankishness is a quality of mischievous playfulness—the disposition to pull pranks or engage in harmless trickery.
It suggests lighthearted troublemaking rather than malice: There was a prankishness in his eyes that made you check your chair before sitting down.
Mischievous or deceitful behavior
- tomfooleryFoolish or silly behavior
- monkeyshinesFrivolous or mischievous behavior
- rogueryDishonest or mischievous conduct
- devilryWicked or mischievous conduct
troublemaking · naughtiness · rascality · hijinks · antics · capers · tricks · practical jokes
Whimsically inclined to tease
- elfinSmall and sprite-like
- pixieishResembling a mischievous fairy
- roguishMischievously charming
- mischievousPlayfully causing trouble
scamp · rascal · urchin · gremlin · trickster · leprechaun · Puck · Loki
Clever, inventive humor
- funninessQuality of being amusing
- drolleryWhimsical, understated humor
- comicalityAmusing or ludicrous nature
- waggeryPlayful, mischievous humor
clowning · buffoonery · silliness · absurdity · ridiculousness · zaniness · goofiness · jocularity
shenanigans
Mischievous or deceitful behavior
- tomfooleryFoolish or silly behavior
- monkeyshinesFrivolous or mischievous behavior
- rogueryDishonest or mischievous conduct
devilry · troublemaking · naughtiness · rascality · hijinks · antics · capers · tricks · practical jokes · horseplay
puckish
Whimsically inclined to tease
mischievous · scamp · rascal · urchin · gremlin · trickster · leprechaun · Puck · Loki · coyote
wit
Clever, inventive humor
- funninessQuality of being amusing
- drolleryWhimsical, understated humor
- comicalityAmusing or ludicrous nature
waggery · clowning · buffoonery · silliness · absurdity · ridiculousness · zaniness · goofiness · jocularity · facetious
frolicsome
Inclined to merriment
joking · teasing · bantering · larking · romping · gamboling · frolicking · cavorting · rollicking · lighthearted
- mischiefmischief, hijinks, antics, antic, shenanigans
- tomfoolerysilliness, foolery, clownery, clownishness, goofing off
- audacityboldness, brazenness, audacity, chutzpah, gall
- Types of Humorsilliness, funniness, wittiness, corniness, zaniness
- witticismsquips, witticisms, witticism, bon mots, bon mot
prankishnesssolemnity
Serious, dignified quality
seriousness · gravity · earnestness · sobriety · staidness
prankishnessearnestness
Genuine seriousness of intent
sincerity · straightforwardness · seriousness · guilelessness · artlessness
prank, pranks, prankster, pranking, pranked, prankish, pranksters