knavish

Other forms of knavish

comparative

knavisher·

superlative

knavishest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about knavish

What does knavish mean?

knavish means "marked by skill in deception".

How many syllables are in knavish?

knavish has 2 syllables: kna-vish. The stress falls on "kna".

What is another word for knavish?

Close synonyms include crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is knavish a common word?

knavish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.