Definitions for impish

impish imp·ish

Spelling: [im-pish]
IPA: /ˈɪm pɪʃ/

Impish is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in impish (hiimps).

Definitions for impish

adjective

  1. mischievous.
  2. of, relating to, or characteristic of an imp.

Origin of impish

First recorded in 1645-55; imp + -ish1

Examples for impish

In such a life there is no place for untruthfulness or any member of its impish brood.

An impish fear clutched my hand, so that I could not write any more that day.

They could not reconcile it with the impish tricks she had played.

Sasha, now 11 years old, was no longer the impish child but a preteen with a sense of age-appropriate glamour.

There lurked about him the impish quality of the whistle that had summoned her.

She appeared at his side, impish smile in place, dutiful, fragrantly rather than ferociously sexy, and—frustratingly—an adjunct.

Posner may be impish, but the flawed amendment language is a prime villain in the gun debate.

She knew Jack could never feel the same to me, as the mother of that impish girl.

It was an impish trick, and it brought him unwittingly into peril of his soul.

New York magazine art critic Jerry Saltz described it as “fabulously complex, sexual, asexual, mysterious, powerful, impish.”

Word Value for impish
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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