English > foolish: 2 senses > adjective 1Meaning | Devoid of good sense or judgment. |
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Examples | - "foolish remarks"
- "a foolish decision"
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Narrower | absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous | incongruous |
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fond | Absurd or silly because unlikely |
goofy, silly, wacky, whacky, zany | Ludicrous, foolish |
harebrained, insane, mad | Very foolish |
ill-conceived, misguided | poorly conceived or thought out |
mindless, vacuous | Devoid of intelligence |
rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained, scatty | lacking sense or discretion |
unwise | showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom / wisdom / wisdom |
See also | ill-advised, unadvised | Without careful prior deliberation or counsel |
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impolitic | not politic |
imprudent | not prudent or wise |
inadvisable, unadvisable | not prudent or wise |
Opposite | wise | Having or prompted by wisdom / wisdom / wisdom or discernment |
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Spanish | necio, tonto |
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Nouns | foolishness | the quality of being rash and foolish |
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Adverbs | foolishly | without good sense or judgment |
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