Foolish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Foolish \Fool"ish\, a.
     1. Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding;
        weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly;
        unwise.
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              I am a very foolish fond old man.     --Shak.
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     2. Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind
        or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion;
        as, a foolish act.
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     3. Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible.
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              A foolish figure he must make.        --Prior.
  
     Syn: Absurd; shallow; shallow-brained; brainless; simple;
          irrational; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet; incautious;
          silly; ridiculous; vain; trifling; contemptible. See
          {Absurd}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  foolish
       adj 1: devoid of good sense or judgment; "foolish remarks"; "a
              foolish decision" [ant: {wise}]
       2: having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine
          behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool
          idea about rewriting authors' books" [syn: {anserine}, {dopy},
           {dopey}, {goosey}, {goosy}, {gooselike}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  194 Moby Thesaurus words for "foolish":
     Pickwickian, absurd, airy, apish, arch, asinine, batty, befooled,
     beguiled, bemused, besotted, beyond belief, bizarre, blockheaded,
     boneheaded, brainless, brash, buffoonish, catchpenny, cockamamie,
     cockeyed, confused, crazy, credulous, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed,
     demented, devilish, dim, dim-witted, dippy, dizzy, dopey, doting,
     dotty, dull-witted, dumb, elfish, elvish, empty, empty-headed,
     erratic, extravagant, fantastic, fatuitous, fatuous, feebleminded,
     flaky, flimsy, fond, fool, foolhardy, foolheaded, fribble,
     fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fuddled, full of mischief, futile,
     gaga, goofy, grotesque, gulled, hasty, headless, headlong,
     heedless, high-flown, high-spirited, idiotic, idle, ignorant,
     ill-advised, ill-considered, illogical, imbecile, imbecilic,
     impetuous, impish, impolitic, imprudent, inane, incautious,
     incredible, indiscreet, inept, infatuated, injudicious, insane,
     insensate, irrational, knavish, kooky, lackbrained, laughable,
     lean-minded, lean-witted, light, light-headed, loony, ludicrous,
     mad, maudlin, mindless, mischief-loving, mischievous, misguided,
     monstrous, moronic, nonsensical, not bright, nugacious, nugatory,
     numskulled, nuts, nutty, obtuse, of little brain, otiose,
     outrageous, outre, pea-brained, pin-brained, playful, poppycockish,
     potty, prankish, pranksome, pranky, preposterous, puckish, rash,
     reasonless, reckless, ridiculous, roguish, rubbishy, sappy,
     scampish, scapegrace, scatterbrained, screwy, senseless,
     sentimental, shallow, short-sighted, silly, skimble-skamble,
     slackminded, slackwitted, slender, slight, slow-witted, sportive,
     stolid, stupid, superficial, thick, thickheaded, thoughtless,
     trashy, trickish, tricksy, trifling, trite, trivial, twaddling,
     twaddly, ungifted, unintellectual, unintelligent, unorthodox,
     unreasonable, unreasoning, unstable, untalented, unthinking,
     unwary, unwise, unwitty, vacuous, vain, vapid, wacky, waggish,
     weak-minded, weird, wet, wild, windy, witless