FOOL vs STUPID: NOUN
- A person who lacks good judgment
- A professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages
- 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 with a talent or enthusiasm for a certain activity.
- One who has been tricked or made to appear ridiculous; a dupe.
- One who acts unwisely on a given occasion.
- One who is deficient in judgment, sense, or understanding.
- 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.
- Harlequin, clown, jester. See zany.
- Synonyms and Simpleton, ninny, dolt, witling, blockhead. driveler.
- A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
- A sort of custard; a dish made of fruit crushed and scalded or stewed and mixed with whipped cream and sugar: as, gooseberry fool.
- One who is deficient in intellect; a weak-minded or idiotic person.
- A light paste of flour and water, like pie-crust.
- 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.
- Figuratively, a tool, toy, sport, butt, or victim: as, to be the fool of circumstances.
- A wanton, bad, or wicked person.
- A conical paper cap which dunces at school are sometimes compelled to wear by way of punishment.
- To act like one void of understanding.
- 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.
- A stupid person; a fool.
- A stupid or humdrum person; a blockhead; a dunce.
- A stupid or foolish person.
- A person who is not very bright
FOOL vs STUPID: ADJECTIVE
- Foolish; stupid.
- Lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
- Without much intelligence
- Slow to learn or understand; obtuse.
- Tending to make poor decisions or careless mistakes.
- Marked by a lack of intelligence or care; foolish or careless.
- Dazed, stunned, or stupefied.
- Used to express disparagement or exasperation.
- In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
- Damn, annoying, darn
- Amazing.
- Lacking intelligence
- Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
- To the point of stupor.
- Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things.
- Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons.
- Lacking in intelligence or exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
- Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.
FOOL vs STUPID: VERB
- Spend frivolously and unwisely
- Fool or hoax
- Indulge in horseplay
- Make a fool or dupe of
- N/A
FOOL vs STUPID: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
- To toy, tinker, or mess.
- 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.
- N/A
FOOL vs STUPID: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage.
- To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence.
- To infatuate; to make foolish.
- N/A
FOOL vs STUPID: ADVERB
- N/A
- Extremely.
FOOL vs STUPID: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Foolish; silly.
- To play the fool; act like a weak-minded or foolish person; potter aimlessly or mischievously; toy; trifle.
- 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.
- (idiom) (play/act) To behave in a playful or comical manner.
- (idiom) (play/act) To act in an irresponsible or foolish manner.
- In a state of stupor; having the faculties deadened or dulled; stupefied, either permanently or temporarily; benumbed.
- Lacking ordinary activity of mind; dull in ideas or expression; slow-witted; obtuse; crass.
- Characterized by mental dullness or inanity; witless; senseless; foolish; inane: as, a stupid joke; a stupid book; stupid fears.
- Synonyms Heavy, dull, drowsy, lethargic, comatose, torpid.
- Muddy-brained, muddled.
- Silly, Foolish, etc. (see absurd); flat, tame, humdrum, pointless, prosaic. See list under foolish.
FOOL vs STUPID: RELATED WORDS
- Fritter, Goosey, Jester, Schlemiel, Muggins, Goofy, Patsy, Dopey, Sucker, Silly, Befool, Chump, Foolish, Stupid, Dupe
- Senseless, Cloddish, Obtuse, Thickheaded, Imbecilic, Imbecile, Dolt, Fool, Boneheaded, Dopey, Brainless, Unintelligent, Moronic, Foolish, Dumb
FOOL vs STUPID: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Mug, Cockamamie, Goosey, Jester, Schlemiel, Muggins, Goofy, Patsy, Dopey, Sucker, Silly, Chump, Foolish, Stupid, Dupe
- Senseless, Cloddish, Obtuse, Thickheaded, Imbecilic, Imbecile, Dolt, Fool, Boneheaded, Dopey, Brainless, Unintelligent, Moronic, Foolish, Dumb
FOOL vs STUPID: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
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- He was a fool and worse than a fool.
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- You were saying how a fool can only fool you so long.
- Being a fool sometimes does not make one a fool all the time.
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- This is just so utterly stupid it boggles my mind and you should be ashamed for saying such a stupid thing.
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- If Abbott is not stupid, why does he keep doing stupid things?
- There are no stupid questions just stupid people.
- Play stupid games, win stupid prizes I guess.
- To be truly stupid, you cannot play stupid.
- He made some fundamentally stupid people _look_ stupid.
- Then I went and did a stupid, stupid thing.
- My mama says that stupid is as stupid does.
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