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Mischievous vs Damaging - What's the difference?

mischievous | damaging |

As adjectives the difference between mischievous and damaging

is that mischievous is causing mischief; injurious while damaging is harmful; injurious; causing damage.

As a verb damaging is

present participle of lang=en.

mischievous

English

Alternative forms

* mischievious, mischevious (common misspellings)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing mischief; injurious.
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  • Troublesome, cheeky, badly behaved.
  • Matthew had a twin brother called Edward, who was always mischievous and badly behaved.

    Synonyms

    * (causing mischief) harmful, hurtful, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, destructive; see also * (badly-behaved) badly-behaved, naughty

    Derived terms

    * mischievously * mischievousness

    Anagrams

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    damaging

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Harmful; injurious; causing damage.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging , but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

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