English > foolish: 2 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | 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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| asinine, fatuous, inane, mindless, vacuous | Devoid of intelligence |
| cockamamie, cockamamy, goofy, sappy, silly, wacky, whacky, zany | Ludicrous, foolish |
| fond | Absurd or silly because unlikely |
| harebrained, insane, mad | Very foolish |
| ill-conceived, misguided | poorly conceived or thought out |
| 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 | 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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