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Mischief vs Scatheless - What's the difference?

mischief | scatheless |

As a noun mischief

is harm or evil caused by an agent or brought about by a particular cause.

As an adjective scatheless is

without scathe or harm; without mischief, injury, or damage; unharmed.

mischief

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Harm or evil caused by an agent or brought about by a particular cause.
  • One who causes mischief. In a milder sense, one who causes petty annoyances. mischief-maker.
  • Vexatious or annoying conduct.

    • Quotations

    * 1914–1915' "I fear this means that there is some '''mischief afoot." — Sherlock Holmes in ''.

    Synonyms

    * (evil) agitation, annoyance, corruption, damage, demolition, destruction, detriment, disablement, disruption, evil, harm, hurt, ill, impairment, incapacitation, injury, nuisance, pique, ravage, sabotage, scathe, trouble, undoing, unmaking, vexation, weakening, wrong * (mischief-maker) bad boy, booger, buffoon, bugger, cutup, devil, elf, enfant terrible, fun-maker, hell-raiser, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, imp, joker, jokester, knave, life of the party, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, minx, mischief-maker, pixie, practical joker, prankster, puck, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, rowdy, ruffian, scamp, scapegrace, thug, trouble maker, vandal, wag * (annoying conduct) bad manners, badness, delinquincy, devilishness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, disobedience, elfishness, goings-on, hanky-panky, impishness, impropriety, misbehavior, mischievousness, misconduct, misdemeanor, monkey business, naughtiness, prankishness, pranksomeness, puckishness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, scampishness * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * malicious mischief * mischievous * mischievously * mischievousness * mischief-maker

    scatheless

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Without scathe or harm; without mischief, injury, or damage; unharmed.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Francesco Saverio Nitti, title=Peaceless Europe, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=With the exception, perhaps, of Great Britain, whose privileged insular situation, enormous mercantile navy and flourishing trade in coal have enabled her to resume her pre-war economic existence almost entirely, no country has emerged scatheless from the War. The rates of exchange soar daily to fantastic heights, and insuperable barriers to the commerce of European nations are being created. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1915, author=Irvin S. Cobb, title=Paths of Glory, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The houses round about have fared better, in the main, than the mill, though none of them has come scatheless out of the fight. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1884, author=H. Rider Haggard, title=Dawn, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He felt like a man who has just come scatheless through some horrible crisis, and once more knows the sweet sensation of safety. }}