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[ fˈuːlɪʃ], [ fˈuːlɪʃ], [ f_ˈuː_l_ɪ_ʃ]
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Similar words for foolish:
- absurd (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- asinine (adjective)
- babyish (adjective)
- balmy (adjective)
- brainless (adjective)
- childish (adjective)
- crazy (adjective)
- daffy (adjective)
- daft (adjective)
- demented (adjective)
- deranged (adjective)
- dizzy (adjective)
- dopey (adjective)
- doting (adjective)
- dotty (adjective)
- dumb (adjective)
- extravagant (adjective)
- fantastic (adjective)
- fatuous (adjective)
- foolish (adjective)
- frivolous (adjective)
- goofy (adjective)
- gullible (adjective)
- half-baked (adjective)
- half-witted (adjective)
- idealistic (adjective)
- idiotic (adjective)
- ignorant (adjective)
- ill-advised (adjective)
- ill-considered (adjective)
- imprudent (adjective)
- inadvisable (adjective)
- inane (adjective)
- indiscreet (adjective)
- infatuated (adjective)
- injudicious (adjective)
- insensate (adjective)
- irrational (adjective)
- light-headed (adjective)
- lightheaded (adjective)
- lightweight (adjective)
- ludicrous (adjective)
- lunatic (adjective)
- mad (adjective)
- mindless (adjective)
- misguided (adjective)
- nonsensical, idiotic (adjective)
- nuts/nutty (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- preposterous (adjective)
- puerile (adjective)
- rich (adjective)
- ridiculous (adjective)
- rustic (adjective)
- senseless (adjective)
- shallow (adjective)
- sheepish (adjective)
- short-sighted (adjective)
- shortsighted (adjective)
- soft (adjective)
- stupid (adjective)
- tasteless (adjective)
- thick-witted (adjective)
- thoughtless (adjective)
- unintellectual (adjective)
- unintelligent (adjective)
- unreasonable (adjective)
- unthinking (adjective)
- vacant (adjective)
- vacuous (adjective)
- wild (adjective)
- zany (adjective)
- anserine (noun)
- asinine (noun)
- cockamamy (noun)
- dopy (noun)
- fool (noun)
- foolish (noun)
- imprudent (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- silly (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- imprudent
- infatuated
- witless
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Foolish:
adj.
• absurd (adjective)- incongruous,
- jokey,
- silly,
- idiotic,
- invalid,
- paradoxical,
- gagged up,
- fallacious,
- anachronistic,
- screwy,
- impossible,
- ludicrous,
- laughable,
- bizarre,
- meaningless,
- farcical,
- self-contradictory,
- outlandish,
- implausible,
- for grins,
- campiest,
- campy,
- illogical,
- eccentric,
- inconsistent,
- off the wall,
- contradictory,
- campier,
- fooling around,
- nonsensical,
- loony,
- flaky.
- in-saner,
- in-sane,
- un workable,
- in-sanest,
- more ill-conceived,
- illconceived,
- more derisory,
- out reason,
- most ill conceived,
- most ill-conceived,
- in sane,
- more impracticable,
- in-appropriate,
- more ill conceived,
- in saner,
- out all reason,
- un-workable,
- in sanest,
- most illconceived,
- more illconceived,
- most derisory,
- ill conceived,
- in appropriate,
- out of reason.
- most unglued,
- psycho,
- out of tree,
- more maniac,
- be mused,
- more unglued,
- most schizoid,
- out tree,
- out of one tree,
- most manic,
- most crackbrained,
- more maniacal,
- out one tree,
- most maniac,
- out one's tree,
- more crackbrained,
- hysterical,
- more schizoid,
- un glued,
- out of ones tree,
- out ones tree,
- be-mused,
- schitziest,
- un-glued,
- schitzier.
- in-ordinate,
- un-conscionable,
- over priced,
- un conscionable,
- most overpriced,
- un-restrained,
- more spendthrift,
- most spendthrift,
- ex pensive,
- in ordinate,
- ostentatious,
- more overpriced,
- ex-pensive,
- grandiose,
- over-priced.
- mis-leading,
- in credible,
- fictional,
- mis leading,
- un-likeliest,
- un likely,
- more phantasmagorical,
- out sight,
- incredible,
- un likelier,
- un likeliest,
- out of sight,
- un-likely,
- un-real,
- un believable,
- un-believable,
- in-credible,
- most phantasmagorical,
- far fetched,
- un-likelier.
- imbecilic,
- meat-headed,
- blithering,
- chuckle-headed,
- doltish,
- dim-witted,
- knuckle-headed,
- lame-brained,
- ignorant,
- nitwit,
- jackass,
- crackpot,
- bone-headed,
- blockheaded.
- more lightminded,
- un-profounder,
- un profounder,
- light minded,
- most light minded,
- nonserious,
- unprofoundest,
- sportive,
- facetious,
- un important,
- more light-minded,
- most nonserious,
- most light-minded,
- flighty,
- most sportive,
- tongue-in-cheek,
- un profound,
- non-serious,
- more light minded,
- unprofounder,
- unprofound,
- un-profound,
- lightminded,
- playful,
- more nonserious,
- un-important,
- light-minded,
- un-profoundest,
- un profoundest,
- non serious,
- most lightminded,
- flippest.
- unskeptical,
- wide-eyed,
- trustful,
- kidding oneself,
- taken in,
- swallowing whole,
- easily taken in,
- falling hook line and sinker,
- taking the bait,
- tumbling for.
- dullwitted,
- half witted,
- more dull witted,
- more dullwitted,
- most dull witted,
- dull witted,
- most dull-witted,
- most dullwitted,
- more dull-witted.
- in-convenient,
- un-sensible,
- inconvenient,
- un sensible,
- in convenient,
- in advisable,
- un suitable,
- un-desirable,
- in-advisable,
- more unsensible,
- un-suitable,
- most unsensible,
- un desirable,
- unsuitable.
- in flamed,
- most seduced,
- in-flamed,
- more beguiled,
- most beguiled,
- enamored,
- seduced,
- more captivated,
- be-witched,
- be sotted,
- most captivated,
- under spell,
- more enraptured,
- most enraptured,
- be witched,
- more seduced,
- be-sotted.
- in-valid,
- most off the wall,
- un-reasoning,
- most reasonless,
- more reasonless,
- more off the wall,
- most off-the-wall,
- dis-jointed,
- more off-the-wall,
- most cockamamie,
- more unreasoning,
- dis jointed,
- dis-connected,
- dis connected,
- more cockamamie,
- most unreasoning,
- in valid,
- in-coherent,
- un reasoning.
- out one mind,
- un-safer,
- off one rocker,
- un safer,
- out of one mind,
- out mind,
- un safest,
- un-safe,
- out of ones mind,
- out one's mind,
- un-safest,
- out ones mind,
- un safe,
- off ones rocker.
- most brutish,
- un-mindful,
- in-attentive,
- out it,
- more mooning,
- more daydreaming,
- un aware,
- un-aware,
- more nitwitted,
- most daydreaming,
- spacedout,
- most mooning,
- most nitwitted,
- more brutish.
- weak,
- nerdy,
- feebleminded,
- jerky.
- moronic,
- ridiculous,
- soft,
- of unsound mind,
- derisory,
- off deep end,
- crazy,
- unexpressive,
- barmy,
- self-willed,
- imprudent,
- mad,
- indiscreet,
- not intelligent,
- playing with fire,
- light-headed,
- out of mind,
- short-sighted,
- boneheaded,
- phantasmagorical,
- insensate,
- Thick-headed,
- absurd,
- Dupable,
- rustic,
- lunatic,
- lightweight,
- unglued,
- unwise,
- schitzy,
- misguided,
- goofy,
- schizoid,
- childish,
- lamebrained,
- Dull-witted,
- unreasoning,
- mentally deficient,
- cockamamie,
- off rocker,
- wacky,
- dopey,
- beyond all reason,
- thick-witted,
- wild,
- dotty,
- slumberish,
- featherbrained,
- halfwitted,
- dumb,
- overpriced,
- unfledged,
- cretinous,
- nutty as fruitcake,
- daft,
- near-sighted,
- buggy,
- head-strong,
- senseless,
- nitwitted,
- out of one's tree,
- vacuous,
- ill-advised,
- Infantine,
- Unsensible,
- out of it,
- infatuated,
- reasonless,
- lightheaded,
- brainless,
- ill-conceived,
- off one's rocker,
- crackbrained,
- under a spell,
- birdbrained,
- frivolous,
- vacant,
- Gelastic,
- inane,
- dizzy,
- batty,
- squirrelly,
- mentally unbalanced,
- carried away,
- puerile,
- clownish,
- leaving self wide open,
- fantastic,
- simple,
- nutty as a fruitcake,
- tongue in cheek,
- half-baked,
- out of all reason,
- unadvisable,
- ditzy,
- extravagant,
- taking the cake,
- sheepish,
- goofy loony,
- fatuous,
- flipper,
- preposterous,
- Imperceptive,
- astigmatic,
- unsagacious,
- shortsighted,
- rich,
- Clodhopping,
- full of hot air,
- far gone on,
- anencephalic,
- thoughtless,
- stupid,
- Daffy,
- ungrown,
- madcap,
- beyond reason,
- harebrained,
- unreasonable,
- not serious,
- brutish,
- Anencephalous,
- demented,
- tasteless,
- gullible,
- off-the-wall,
- half-witted,
- out of question,
- inadvisable,
- babyish,
- airheaded,
- unintelligent,
- unthinking,
- Mentally Handicapped,
- poorly planned,
- babylike,
- all wet.
- un fledged,
- more unfledged,
- un grown,
- un-grown,
- in-experienced,
- more babylike,
- in experienced,
- more ungrown,
- most ungrown,
- most unfledged,
- un-fledged,
- most babylike.
- more slaying,
- more side splitting,
- more splitting,
- most side-splitting,
- most slaying,
- more side-splitting,
- most splitting,
- side splitting,
- most side splitting.
- un educated,
- un-gainly,
- un polished,
- un-educated,
- un gainly,
- un-mannerly,
- un gainliest,
- un mannerly,
- more clodhopping,
- un cultured,
- in-elegant,
- un gainlier,
- most clodhopping,
- in elegant,
- un-cultured.
- most mortified,
- more mortified,
- more chagrined,
- self conscious,
- most chagrined,
- selfconscious,
- re tiring,
- re-tiring,
- un comfortable,
- un-comfortable.
- more near-sighted,
- short sighted,
- more near sighted,
- near sighted,
- most near-sighted,
- most near sighted.
- most astigmatic,
- un-wariest,
- most imperceptive,
- most unsagacious,
- un wary,
- nearsighted,
- head long,
- un sagacious,
- more unsagacious,
- head-long,
- un-sagacious,
- un-wary,
- un warier,
- un-warier,
- more astigmatic,
- un wariest,
- more imperceptive.
- more thick headed,
- dummiest,
- dummier,
- most thick headed,
- more loser,
- most thick-headed,
- more thick-headed,
- most loser,
- out lunch,
- thick headed.
- in-consequential,
- full hot air,
- quirky,
- in consequential,
- un reasoned,
- un-reasonable,
- un reasonable,
- un-reasoned.
- un intended,
- most napping,
- napping,
- un conscious,
- un-thinking,
- un-intended,
- un meant,
- un thinking,
- more blundering,
- un-conscious,
- un-diplomatic,
- more napping,
- un diplomatic,
- un-meant,
- un-caring,
- un-premeditated,
- un caring,
- un tactful,
- most blundering,
- un-tactful.
- in-expressive,
- in expressive,
- in curious,
- in-curious,
- most unexpressive,
- un expressive,
- more unexpressive,
- un-expressive.
n.
• anserine (noun) • asinine (noun) • cockamamy (noun) • dopy (noun)- dopy.
- fool.
- insane,
- mindless,
- gooselike,
- rattlepated,
- sappy,
- whacky,
- scatty,
- scatterbrained,
- goosy,
- zany,
- goosey,
- rattlebrained,
- fond.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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•
- improvident,
- unconsidered,
- contrite,
- dippy,
- blithely,
- undiscriminating,
- unwary,
- guilty,
- abashed,
- bumbling,
- ashamed,
- jejune,
- guilt-ridden,
- hung up,
- uncomfortable,
- indiscriminate,
- sorry,
- repentant,
- tongue-tied,
- incautious,
- self-conscious,
- myopic,
- mortified,
- reckless,
- softheaded,
- doting,
- witless,
- blindly,
- rudderless,
- impolitic,
- knee jerk,
- merrily,
- conscience-stricken,
- disconnected,
- embarrassed,
- blithe,
- loopy.
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•
- unguarded,
- impetuous,
- unwitting,
- Weak-minded,
- clumsy,
- cockeyed,
- breezy,
- impulsive,
- shallow,
- precipitous,
- vulgar,
- irresponsible.
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•
- lightly.
- backward,
- nonintellectual,
- naive,
- confused,
- askew,
- inappropriate,
- unadvised,
- trite,
- Absent-minded,
- unorthodox,
- fitful,
- slow,
- particular,
- unreflecting,
- giddy,
- gone,
- enfeebled,
- ineffectual,
- immoderate,
- choppy,
- high-spirited,
- Rattle-brained,
- buffoonish,
- infantile,
- extreme,
- thin,
- inexpedient,
- cuckoo,
- jocular,
- loco,
- screwball,
- not sensible,
- thick,
- fruity,
- brash,
- impractical,
- daredevil,
- wrong-headed,
- mentally ill,
- vacillating,
- unperceptive,
- waggish,
- unperceiving,
- humorous,
- witty,
- blind,
- distraught,
- inefficient,
- namby-pamby,
- Unpractical,
- devilish,
- timorous,
- finespun,
- wooden,
- unsubstantial,
- Fribble,
- Unapt,
- inconclusive,
- tactless,
- psychotic,
- boorish,
- sophistical,
- distracted,
- dolt,
- outre,
- Dilly,
- erroneous,
- remiss,
- misconducted,
- spiritless,
- catchpenny,
- Fribbling,
- unrefined,
- misplaced,
- pointless,
- windy,
- improper,
- gormless,
- marvellous,
- extraordinary,
- absentminded,
- indiscernible,
- high-flown,
- offbeat,
- despicable,
- fanciful,
- frothy,
- odd,
- wanton,
- play second fiddle,
- Twaddling,
- wet,
- insignificant,
- low,
- Addle-brained,
- juvenile,
- flip,
- volatile,
- uncalled-for,
- vain,
- inconsequential,
- dense,
- amusing,
- bootless,
- hare-brained,
- dimwit,
- maniacal,
- heedless,
- breakneck,
- indelicate,
- indecorous,
- folly,
- vapid,
- helpless,
- accessible,
- incompetent,
- roguish,
- perverse,
- precipitate,
- strange,
- pinhead,
- dazed,
- haywire,
- Mentally Disabled,
- undeserved,
- unimpressive,
- unthoughtful,
- loggerhead,
- change color,
- headlong,
- comic,
- unguided,
- inoffensive,
- anomalous,
- paranoid,
- bird-brained,
- Scampish,
- unrestrained,
- imbalanced,
- blank,
- maudlin,
- humility,
- fuddled,
- mistaken,
- elfish,
- trivial,
- flimsy,
- maniac,
- unladylike,
- minor,
- pliant,
- credulous,
- off,
- arch,
- headstrong,
- imbecile,
- blameworthy,
- unfitting,
- tremendous,
- rude,
- otiose,
- rubbishy,
- hilarious,
- poker-faced,
- simpleminded,
- inconsiderable,
- neglectful,
- prankish,
- wavering,
- bubbleheaded,
- skimble-skamble,
- forgetful,
- untoward,
- irresolute,
- gaga,
- crotchety,
- featherheaded,
- dim,
- trashy,
- trifling,
- merry,
- obscure,
- beyond belief,
- obtuse,
- affectionate,
- terrific,
- nugatory,
- wasteful,
- vacuity,
- oaf,
- prejudiced,
- Feather-headed,
- mysterious,
- Misadvised,
- skin-deep,
- without reason,
- freakish,
- futile,
- bird brain,
- jerking,
- small,
- monstrous,
- slight,
- peculiar,
- annoying,
- contrary,
- humble,
- antic,
- nuts,
- superstitious,
- unimportant,
- impish,
- benighted,
- lunkheaded,
- numbskulled,
- slow-witted,
- redden,
- unmeaning,
- knavish,
- queer,
- booby,
- whimsical,
- blockhead,
- color up,
- Effet,
- unfortunate,
- unmindful,
- Fatuitous,
- wondrous,
- far-fetched,
- airy-fairy,
- ill-contrived,
- imperceptible,
- inadvertent,
- skittish,
- puckish,
- sleeveless,
- stolid,
- dunce,
- wrong,
- muddle-headed,
- Trickish,
- incidental,
- frolicsome,
- unreal,
- prodigal,
- moron,
- bemused,
- brainsick,
- hapless,
- addled,
- awkward,
- empty,
- untalented,
- exhausted,
- uncomprehending,
- elvish,
- risible,
- harmless,
- happy,
- kinky,
- spineless,
- wayward,
- debilitated,
- phenomenal,
- warped,
- unscientific,
- Unreasoned,
- incomprehensible,
- unskillful,
- superficial,
- idle,
- unjustifiable,
- untactful,
- idiot,
- fiddling,
- funny,
- arrhythmic,
- undiplomatic,
- Numskulled,
- unenlightened,
- pinheaded,
- careless,
- dangerous,
- side-splitting,
- disturbed,
- uncoordinated,
- Misled,
- small fry,
- infelicitous,
- trancelike,
- balmy orbarmy,
- negligent,
- inept,
- airy,
- slapstick,
- petty,
- not bright,
- unstable,
- feeble,
- false,
- uncontained,
- untried,
- vexing,
- exorbitant,
- Ungifted,
- negligible,
- unseemly,
- cloddish,
- light,
- crackers,
- infirm,
- unhinged,
- droll,
- Gulled,
- immature,
- pettifogging,
- hang one's head,
- flippant,
- ass,
- dull,
- ninny,
- unbalanced,
- meshuga,
- besotted,
- irritating,
- capricious,
- fantastical,
- anonymous,
- Feeble-minded,
- misdirected,
- Humorsome,
- quibbling,
- purposeless,
- unbelievable,
- incorrect,
- chimerical,
- groundless,
- in love,
- Unphilosophical,
- rash,
- slender,
- impracticable,
- ineffective,
- surface,
- simpleton,
- fey,
- unjustified,
- Chuckleheaded,
- Addle-pated,
- erratic,
- apish,
- sentimental,
- mirthful,
- changeling,
- blessed,
- attocerebral,
- incoherent,
- deadpan,
- Crack-brained,
- unconformable,
- far-out,
- gay,
- foolheaded,
- overrefined,
- hollow,
- vexatious,
- tricksy,
- inattentive,
- bananas,
- amateurish,
- non compos mentis,
- fickle,
- Lean-witted,
- marvelous,
- minute,
- headless,
- jocose,
- foolhardy,
- inexperienced,
- ill-devised,
- thickheaded,
- sick,
- modesty,
- ungentlemanly,
- undiscerning,
- unworkable,
- simple-minded,
- not difficult,
- unfit,
- devil-may-care,
- scapegrace,
- casual,
- arbitrary,
- bats,
- nincompoop,
- faint,
- look blue,
- unscholarly,
- trivial matter,
- maggoty,
- impolite,
- innocuous,
- wonderful,
- bonkers,
- slaphappy,
- little,
- expressionless,
- Soft-headed,
- cretin,
- inadequate,
- cock-eyed,
- beguiled,
- unbecoming,
- woodenheaded,
- captious,
- ill timed,
- Befooled,
- Unwitty,
- mischievous,
- useless,
- psychopathic,
- unreflective,
- Sophomoric,
- powerless,
- cowardly.
How to use "Foolish" in context?
There is no one definitive answer as to what constitutes a foolish act, as the definition of "foolish" can be subjective. However, a few general characteristics that may typically be associated with foolish behavior include making poor decisions based on poor information, being overconfident or overstating one's ability, and exhibiting reckless or careless behavior. Additionally, foolish actions can be costly, both in terms of time and money, and can often result in negative consequences.
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Adjective
absurd, crazy, daft, dumb, foolhardy, ignorant, ill-advised, imprudent, inadvisable, injudicious, insane, irresponsible, mindless, misguided, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous, senseless, thoughtless, unreasonable.
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