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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of, resembling, or characteristic of a devil, as:
  2. adj. Malicious; evil.
  3. adj. Mischievous, teasing, or annoying.
  4. adj. Excessive; extreme: devilish heat.
  5. adv. Extremely; very.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Characteristic of the devil; befitting the devil, or a devil or demon; diabolical; malignant: as, a devilish scheme; devilish conduct.
  2. Extreme; enormous.
  3. Synonyms Satanic, infernal, hellish, impious, wicked, atrocious, nefarious.
  4. Excessively; enormously.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Resembling a devil.
  2. adj. Characteristic of a devil.
  3. adj. informal Extreme, excessive.
  4. adv. informal Devilishly.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to, the devil; diabolical; wicked in the extreme.
  2. adj. colloq. Extreme; excessive.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. in a playfully devilish manner
  2. adj. showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil
  3. adj. playful in an appealingly bold way

Etymologies

  1. devil +‎ -ish (Wiktionary)

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