Synonyms: playful
Definition: full of fun and high spirits
Usage: playful children just let loose from school
Similar words: frolicky, frolicsome, sportive, rollicking, coltish
Definition: given to merry frolicking
Usage: frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes
Similar words: roguish, rascally, devilish
Definition: playful in an appealingly bold way
Usage: a roguish grin
Similar words: elfin, elfish, elvish
Definition: usually good-naturedly mischievous
Usage: perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight; elvish tricks
Similar words: wicked, arch, mischievous, puckish, pixilated, prankish, impish, implike
Definition: naughtily or annoyingly playful
Usage: teasing and worrying with impish laughter; a wicked prank
Similar words: frisky, kittenish
Definition: playful like a lively kitten
Similar words: teasing, mocking, quizzical
Definition: playfully vexing (especially by ridicule)
Usage: his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air- Lawrence Durrell