FOOL vs FOOLISH: NOUN
- A professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages
- One who is deficient in judgment, sense, or understanding.
- One who acts unwisely on a given occasion.
- One who has been tricked or made to appear ridiculous; a dupe.
- A person with a talent or enthusiasm for a certain activity.
- A mentally deficient person; an idiot.
- A dessert made of stewed or puréed fruit mixed with cream or custard and served cold.
- One who subverts convention or orthodoxy or varies from social conformity in order to reveal spiritual or moral truth.
- A member of a royal or noble household who provided entertainment, as with jokes or antics; a jester.
- A person who lacks good judgment
- A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.
- One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.
- A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.
- A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- Synonyms and Simpleton, ninny, dolt, witling, blockhead. driveler.
- To act like one void of understanding.
- A conical paper cap which dunces at school are sometimes compelled to wear by way of punishment.
- A wanton, bad, or wicked person.
- Figuratively, a tool, toy, sport, butt, or victim: as, to be the fool of circumstances.
- One who counterfeits mental weakness or folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer dressed in motley, with a pointed cap and bells on his head, and a mock scepter or bauble in his hand, formerly kept by persons of rank for the purpose of making sport. See bauble.
- One who is deficient in judgment or sense; a silly or stupid person; one who manifests either habitual or occasional lack of discernment or common sense: chiefly used as a term of disparagement, contempt, or self-depreciation.
- One who is deficient in intellect; a weak-minded or idiotic person.
- A sort of custard; a dish made of fruit crushed and scalded or stewed and mixed with whipped cream and sugar: as, gooseberry fool.
- A light paste of flour and water, like pie-crust.
- Harlequin, clown, jester. See zany.
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FOOL vs FOOLISH: ADJECTIVE
- Foolish; stupid.
- Devoid of good sense or judgment
- Having or revealing stupidity
- Lacking or exhibiting a lack of good sense or judgment; silly.
- Capable of arousing laughter; absurd or ridiculous.
- Insignificant; trivial.
- Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise.
- Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion.
- Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible.
- Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
- Resembling or characteristic of a fool.
- Embarrassed; abashed.
FOOL vs FOOLISH: VERB
- Spend frivolously and unwisely
- Fool or hoax
- Indulge in horseplay
- Make a fool or dupe of
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FOOL vs FOOLISH: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To deceive or trick; dupe.
- To confound or prove wrong; surprise, especially pleasantly.
- To speak or act facetiously or in jest; joke.
- To behave comically; clown.
- To feign; pretend.
- To engage in idle or frivolous activity.
- To toy, tinker, or mess.
- To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
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FOOL vs FOOLISH: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To infatuate; to make foolish.
- To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence.
- To get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage.
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FOOL vs FOOLISH: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To beguile; cheat: as, to fool one out of his money.
- To make foolish; infatuate.
- To make a fool of; expose to contempt; disappoint; deceive; impose on.
- To play the buffoon; act as a fool or jester.
- To play the fool; act like a weak-minded or foolish person; potter aimlessly or mischievously; toy; trifle.
- Foolish; silly.
- (idiom) (play/act) To behave in a playful or comical manner.
- (idiom) (play/act) To act in an irresponsible or foolish manner.
- Synonyms Silly, Foolish (see absurd); shallow, brainless, harebrained, simple.
- Slight; insignificant.
- Denoting or indicative of folly.
- Ridiculous; contemptible.
- Proceeding from or prompted by folly; exhibiting a want of discretion or discrimination; silly; vain; trifling.
- Like a fool; manifesting folly; deficient in understanding, sense, or discretion; weak in intellect or judgment; unwise.
FOOL vs FOOLISH: RELATED WORDS
- Fritter, Goosey, Jester, Schlemiel, Muggins, Goofy, Patsy, Dopey, Sucker, Silly, Befool, Chump, Foolish, Stupid, Dupe
- Insane, Nonsensical, Unreasonable, Harebrained, Fatuous, Fool, Preposterous, Absurd, Asinine, Ridiculous, Misguided, Ludicrous, Silly, Stupid, Unwise
FOOL vs FOOLISH: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Mug, Cockamamie, Goosey, Jester, Schlemiel, Muggins, Goofy, Patsy, Dopey, Sucker, Silly, Chump, Foolish, Stupid, Dupe
- Insane, Nonsensical, Unreasonable, Harebrained, Fatuous, Fool, Preposterous, Absurd, Asinine, Ridiculous, Misguided, Ludicrous, Silly, Stupid, Unwise
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