Foolish

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Lacking or exhibiting a lack of good sense or judgment; silly: foolish remarks.
  • adj. Resulting from stupidity or misinformation; unwise: a foolish decision.
  • adj. Arousing laughter; absurd or ridiculous: a foolish grin.
  • adj. Immoderate or stubborn; unreasonable: foolish pride; foolish love.
  • adj. Embarrassed; abashed: I feel foolish telling you this.
  • adj. Insignificant; trivial: spent all their money on foolish little knickknacks.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
  • adj. Resembling or characteristic of a fool.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise.
  • adj. Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion.
  • adj. Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Like a fool; manifesting folly; deficient in understanding, sense, or discretion; weak in intellect or judgment; unwise.
  • Proceeding from or prompted by folly; exhibiting a want of discretion or discrimination; silly; vain; trifling.
  • Ridiculous; contemptible.
  • Denoting or indicative of folly.
  • Slight; insignificant.
  • Synonyms Silly, Foolish (see absurd); shallow, brainless, harebrained, simple.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having or revealing stupidity
  • adj. devoid of good sense or judgment
  • Equivalent
    stupid    scatty    ill-conceived    wacky    harebrained    nonsensical    goofy    laughable    cockamamy    cockamamie   
    Antonym
    sane    intelligent    quick-witted    bright    wise    smart   
    Cross Reference
    unwise   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    incautious    ridiculous    shallow    shallow-brained    simple    indiscreet    contemptible    absurd    trifling    silly   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    ghoulish   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    stupid    wicked    weak    reckless    unhappy    romantic