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.

Edited by Constantine

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.

Checker: Tanya

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.

Edited by Jessica

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Checker: Mortimer

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