myschevous
Middle English
/mɛsˈtʃeːvuːs/
adj
Definitions
- Sorrowful, distraught; experiencing hardship or penury.
- Harmful, destructive, injurious, painful.
- Morally wrong; iniquitous, malicious, unfair.
Etymology
Borrowed from meschevous affix from Middle English myschef.
Origin
Middle English
myschef
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mischief English
- mischievous English
- mischievously English
- mischievousness English
- chef Middle English
- myschef Middle English
- myscheven Middle English
- myschevously Middle English
- meschever Old French
- meschief Old French
- meschevous xno