Foolish
['fuːlɪʃ] or ['fulɪʃ]
Definition
(adj.) devoid of good sense or judgment; 'foolish remarks'; 'a foolish decision' .
Checked by Archie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise.
(a.) Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion; as, a foolish act.
(a.) Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible.
Edited by Georgina
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Senseless, idiotic, silly, weak, DAFT, simple, irrational, insensate, shallow, brainless, witless, thick-skulled, buffle-headed, shallow-brained.[2]. Unwise, unreasonable, absurd, ridiculous, nonsensical, ill-judged, preposterous, indiscreet, imprudent.[3]. Idle, trivial, trifling, vain, childish, puerile, contemptible.
Checker: Lorenzo
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Senseless, idiotic, crazed, shallow, weak, silly, injudicious, irrational,absurd, contemptible, objectionable, witless, brainless, imbecile,preposterous, ridiculous, nonsensical, simple
ANT:Sensible, sane, deep, clearsighted, sound, sagacious, strongminded, wise,prudent, judicious, calculating, advisable, eligible
Editor: Thea
Examples
- Foolish of her, you will say. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- So don't let me hear of these foolish morbid ideas. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- If you're quite convinced, that any foolish passion on my part is entirely over, I will wish you good afternoon. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I only know he is a very foolish vain fellow, and put my dear little girl into a very painful and awkward position last night. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was only after this foolish exploit that the idea of a republic took hold of the French mind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Regardless of the foolish belief of the peoples of the outer world, or of Holy Thern, or ebon First Born, I am not dead. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Don't pay yourself at another man's expense (which is foolish), but be business-like! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- What is the foolish girl about? Jane Austen. Emma.
- He was a mild, good-natured, sweet-tempered, easy-going, foolish, dear fellow,--a sort of Hercules in strength, and also in weakness. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She stopped--Henry Crawford looked rather foolish, and as if he did not know what to say. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- What an insubstantial, happy, foolish time it was! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- This foolish blague was accompanied by a description of Edison's new aerophone, a steam machine which carried the voice a distance of one and a half miles. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That is why it seems to me so foolish to entertain them when they come to New York. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Secretly, I am afraid I was foolish enough to be angry too. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I thought (foolish wretch! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Mad and foolish boy! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- MY girls were nothing to her, and yet they used to be foolish enough; but as for Miss Marianne, she is quite an altered creature. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Oh what a foolish fellow you were, Doady, when I gave you one! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Live at his expense as much as you can, and take warning by his foolish example. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- My lady has a very friendly interest in Rosanna; and the girl may only have been forward and foolish, after all. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I fear you think me foolish and perhaps wrong for coming back so soon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Very foolish, and very unlike ME--but so it is. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I made a foolish pretence of not at first recognizing it, and then told her. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Clearly the musician is wise, and he who is not a musician is foolish. Plato. The Republic.
- It is foolish of you to meet me like this. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It's not a foolish fancy. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I thought of Steerforth: and a foolish, fearful fancy came upon me of his being near at hand, and liable to be met at any turn. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There was water in the foolish little fellow's eyes, but she kissed them dry (though her own were wet), and he bobbed away again. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He concluded that the foreign mill-owner was a selfish, an unfeeling, and, he thought, too, a foolish man. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Editor: Thea