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[syn: anserine, dopy, dopey, foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike, jerky]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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, foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike, jerky]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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