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English adjective: foolish | |||
| 1. | foolish devoid of good sense or judgment | ||
| Samples | Foolish remarks. A foolish decision. | ||
| Similar | absurd, asinine, cockamamie, cockamamy, cockeyed, derisory, fatuous, fond, goofy, harebrained, idiotic, ill-conceived, inane, insane, laughable, ludicrous, mad, mindless, misguided, nonsensical, preposterous, rattlebrained, rattlepated, ridiculous, sappy, scatterbrained, scatty, silly, unwise, vacuous, wacky, whacky, zany | ||
| See also | ill-advised, impolitic, imprudent, inadvisable, unadvisable, unadvised | ||
| Antonyms | wise | ||
| 2. | foolish having or revealing stupidity | ||
| Samples | Ridiculous anserine behavior. A dopey answer. A dopey kid. Some fool idea about rewriting authors' books. | ||
| Synonyms | anserine, dopey, dopy, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky | ||
| Similar | stupid | ||
| Domain usage | colloquialism | ||
| Antonyms | smart | ||
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