What are the opposite words for wisdom?
Wisdom is often associated with intelligence, knowledge and understanding. But, not all words have positive connotations. Antonyms for wisdom include foolishness, ignorance, stupidity, and irrationality. These are traits that are often associated with childish or immature behavior. To lack wisdom is to make poor decisions, overlook critical details, and miss opportunities to grow and develop. The opposite of wisdom is not just the absence of knowledge or experience, it is a fundamental inability to learn from the lessons of the past, present, and future. It can lead to dangerous outcomes and a lack of personal growth.
- absurdity
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foolishness
- absurdness,
- foolery,
- imbecility,
- irresponsibility,
- unwiseness,
- Fooleries,
- carryings-on,
- absurdnesses,
- carrying-on,
- carryingon,
- carryings on,
- carryingson,
- fool trick,
- fool tricks,
- horse feather,
- in sensibilities,
- in sensibility,
- in-sensibilities,
- in-sensibility,
- irresponsibilities,
- mis take,
- mis takes,
- mis-take,
- mis-takes,
- unwisenesses.
- attribute
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ignorance
- callowness,
- crudeness,
- denseness,
- ignorance,
- incomprehension,
- innocence,
- insensitivity,
- obtuseness,
- philistinism,
- shallowness,
- simplicity,
- uncouthness,
- unenlightenment,
- Inscience,
- Sciolism,
- be wilderment,
- be wilderments,
- be-wilderment,
- be-wilderments,
- callownesses,
- crudenesses,
- densenesses,
- dis regard,
- dis regards,
- dis-regard,
- dis-regards,
- empty headedness,
- empty headednesses,
- empty-headedness,
- empty-headednesses,
- emptyheadedness,
- emptyheadednesses,
- half knowledge,
- half knowledges,
- half-knowledge,
- half-knowledges,
- halfknowledge,
- halfknowledges,
- in capacity,
- in comprehension,
- in comprehensions,
- in science,
- in sciences,
- in sensitivities,
- in sensitivity,
- in-capacities,
- in-capacity,
- in-comprehension,
- in-comprehensions,
- in-science,
- in-sciences,
- in-sensitivities,
- in-sensitivity,
- incomprehensions,
- insciences,
- insensitivities,
- lack education,
- lack of education,
- mental incapacities,
- mental incapacity,
- obtusenesses,
- philistinisms,
- sciolisms,
- shallownesses,
- un awarenesses,
- un consciousness,
- un consciousnesses,
- un enlightenment,
- un enlightenments,
- un familiarities,
- un familiarity,
- un scholarliness,
- un scholarlinesses,
- un-awareness,
- un-awarenesses,
- un-consciousness,
- un-consciousnesses,
- un-enlightenment,
- un-enlightenments,
- un-familiarities,
- un-scholarliness,
- un-scholarlinesses,
- uncouthnesses,
- unenlightenments,
- unscholarliness,
- unscholarlinesses.
- babble
- hooey
- imbecility
-
indiscretion
- excitability,
- indiscreetness,
- ingenuousness,
- simple mindedness,
- Misspeak,
- slip up,
- misspeaks,
- simplemindedness,
- dropping ball,
- dropping the ball,
- dumb move,
- dumb moves,
- excitabilities,
- fool mistake,
- fool mistakes,
- foul ups,
- foul-up,
- foul-ups,
- foulup,
- foulups,
- in discreetness,
- in discreetnesses,
- in discretion,
- in discretions,
- in-discreetness,
- in-discreetnesses,
- in-discretion,
- indiscreetnesses,
- ingenuousnesses,
- mis cue,
- mis cues,
- mis judgment,
- mis judgments,
- mis speak,
- mis speaks,
- mis-cue,
- mis-cues,
- mis-judgment,
- mis-speak,
- mis-speaks,
- screw ups,
- screw-ups,
- simple mindednesses,
- simple-mindedness,
- simple-mindednesses,
- simplemindednesses,
- slip of tongue,
- slip the tongue,
- slip ups,
- slip-up,
- slip-ups,
- tactlessnesses,
- un seemliness,
- un seemlinesses,
- un-seemliness,
- un-seemlinesses.
-
folly
- daftness,
- inadvisability,
- obliquity,
- recklessness,
- silliness,
- Obliquities,
- dottiness,
- idiocies,
- witlessness,
- daftnesses,
- dottinesses,
- dumb thing do,
- dumb thing to do,
- dumb trick,
- dumb tricks,
- in advisabilities,
- in advisability,
- in-advisabilities,
- in-advisability,
- in-discretions,
- inadvisabilities,
- un soundness,
- un-soundness,
- un-soundnesses,
- witlessnesses.
- lunacy
- mistake
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stupidity
- fatuousness,
- feeblemindedness,
- injudiciousness,
- nonsensicality,
- puerility,
- Puerilities,
- brainlessness,
- doltishness,
- stupidness,
- battiness,
- misguidedness,
- weak-mindedness,
- feeble-mindedness,
- battinesses,
- brainlessnesses,
- doltishnesses,
- fatuousnesses,
- feeble mindedness,
- feeble mindednesses,
- feeble-mindednesses,
- feeblemindednesses,
- in judiciousness,
- in judiciousnesses,
- in-judiciousness,
- in-judiciousnesses,
- injudiciousnesses,
- misguidednesses,
- nitwittedness,
- nitwittednesses,
- nonsensicalities,
- stupidnesses,
- thick headedness,
- thick headednesses,
- thick-headedness,
- thick-headednesses,
- thickheadedness,
- thickheadednesses,
- weak mindedness,
- weak mindednesses,
- weak-mindednesses,
- weakmindedness,
- weakmindednesses.
- ridiculous situation or behavior
- trivial talk, often incessant
- nonsense
- nonsense, ridiculous idea
- idiocy, nonsense
- craziness, madness
- dullness of mind
- insight, common sense
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Other relevant words
- fiddlesticks,
- carelessness,
- error,
- fatuity,
- heedlessness,
- ignorance,
- illiteracy,
- illogic,
- impracticality,
- imprudence,
- inadvisability,
- indiscretion,
- inexpedience,
- inexpediency,
- inexperience,
- infeasibility,
- injudiciousness,
- innocence,
- inopportuneness,
- irrationality,
- lunacy,
- misapprehension,
- miscalculation,
- misconception,
- misunderstanding,
- nescience,
- obtuseness,
- rudeness,
- shortsightedness,
- unfamiliarity,
- unseasonableness,
- untimeliness,
- preposterousness,
- brainlessness,
- unreasonableness,
- zaniness,
- simplemindedness,
- witlessness.
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- Antonyms:
- expert, local, national.
