Fool
[fuːl] or [ful]
Definition
(noun.) a person who lacks good judgment.
(verb.) make a fool or dupe of.
Checker: Noelle--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.
(n.) One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.
(n.) 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.
(n.) One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.
(n.) One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.
(v. i.) To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
(v. t.) To infatuate; to make foolish.
(v. t.) To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Dolt, witling, driveller, idiot, simpleton, ninny, nincompoop, blockhead, DUNCE.[2]. Buffoon, harlequin, droll, punch, antic, jester, zany, clown, mountebank, merry Andrew, scaramouch, jack-pudding, pickle-herring.
v. n. Trifle, toy, play, play the fool, play the monkey, act like a fool.
v. a. Deceive, cheat, trick, dupe, gull, delude, circumvent, cozen, overreach, beguile, hoodwink, chouse, cully, impose upon.
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Definition
n. crushed fruit scalded or stewed mixed with cream and sugar as 'gooseberry fool.'
n. one who acts stupidly: a person of weak mind: a jester: a tool or victim as of untoward circumstances: (B.) a wicked person.—v.t. to deceive: to treat with contempt.—v.i. to play the fool: to trifle.—adjs. Fool′-begged (Shak.) taken for a fool idiotical absurd; Fool′-born (Shak.) foolish from one's birth arising from folly.—n. Fool′ery an act of folly: habitual folly.—adj. Fool′-happ′y happy or lucky without contrivance or judgment.—n. Fool′-hard′iness—(Spens.) Fool′-hard′ise.—adjs. Fool′-hard′y foolishly bold: rash or incautious; Fool′ish weak in intellect: wanting discretion: ridiculous: marked with folly: deserving ridicule: (B.) sinful disregarding God's laws.—adv. Fool′ishly.—ns. Fool′ishness Fool′ing foolery.—adj. Fool′ish-wit′ty (Shak.) wise in folly and foolish in wisdom.—ns. Fool's′-err′and a silly or fruitless enterprise: search for what cannot be found; Fool's′-pars′ley an umbelliferous plant in Britain not to be mistaken for parsley being poisonous.—Fool away to spend to no purpose or profit; Fool's cap a kind of head-dress worn by professional fools or jesters usually having a cockscomb hood with bells; Fool's paradise a state of happiness based on fictitious hopes or expectations; Fool with to meddle with officiously; Make a fool of to bring a person into ridicule: to disappoint; Play the fool to behave as a fool: to sport.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A person who pervades the domain of intellectual speculation and diffuses himself through the channels of moral activity. He is omnific omniform omnipercipient omniscient omnipotent. He it was who invented letters printing the railroad the steamboat the telegraph the platitude and the circle of the sciences. He created patriotism and taught the nations war—founded theology philosophy law medicine and Chicago. He established monarchical and republican government. He is from everlasting to everlasting—such as creation's dawn beheld he fooleth now. In the morning of time he sang upon primitive hills and in the noonday of existence headed the procession of being. His grandmotherly hand was warmly tucked-in the set sun of civilization and in the twilight he prepares Man's evening meal of milk-and-morality and turns down the covers of the universal grave. And after the rest of us shall have retired for the night of eternal oblivion he will sit up to write a history of human civilization.
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Examples
- To-morrow, loveliest and best, hope and joy of my life, to-morrow I will see thee--Fool, to dream of a moment's delay! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Be dazed if I should like a relation of mine to have been made such a fool of by a man. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I know better, Fred Beauclerc would answer, and yet I am fool enough to love a woman who is going mad for another man. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Like a fool I left my baccy-pouch upon the table. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Says Compeyson: 'Why, you fool, don't you know she's got a living body? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- How the deuce, my dear, would you have me behave respectfully to such a fool as your brother? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Well, then, I spoke to her in my well-known merry way, and she said, 'O that what's shaped so venerable should talk like a fool! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- My head ached with wondering how it happened, if men were neither fools nor rascals; and my heart ached to think they could possibly be either. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We are such fools, we can't entertain each other at table. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- We are neither hypocrites or fools --for the rest, 'Dost thou think because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- No, she was the best-behaved patient they had--and, like fools, they trusted her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But they are still fools. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- This from me may appear to strangers like personal pique, but all who know me will acquit me of having ever, in my life, coveted the society of fools. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Mr. Helstone opined that they were like other fools who had just paired--insensible to inconvenience just for the moment. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His head was not strong: the knaves he lived amongst fooled him beyond anything I ever heard. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- If I renounce my Order, for thee alone will I renounce it--Ambition shall remain mine, if thou refuse my love; I will not be fooled on all hands. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Such genuine powers do not absorb our political interest because we are fooled by the regalia of office. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I don't want my leg fooled with by a first captain. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- This brought the corporal along the half mile, only to find that he was fooled. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Ah--you'll borrow from Selden or Rosedale--and take your chances of fooling them as you've fooled me! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I don't care how you settled your score with them--if you fooled 'em I'm that much to the good. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Play then changes to fooling and if habitually indulged in is demoralizing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Now let's be off, and have no more fooling. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Ah--you'll borrow from Selden or Rosedale--and take your chances of fooling them as you've fooled me! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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