What is another word for foolish?

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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, unguarded, impetuous, unwitting, Weak-minded, clumsy, cockeyed, breezy, impulsive, shallow, precipitous, vulgar, irresponsible, automatically, lightly, injudicious, moonstruck, subnormal, 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, 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, foolish, more cretinous, most cretinous, sissiest, sissier, mentally incompetent, bugged out, oddest, pottiest, pottier, potty, most anencephalic, most anencephalous, more anencephalic, more anencephalous, in-nocent, more infantine, in nocent, un-sophisticated, green, un sophisticated, most infantine, 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 clownish, more clownish, in the ozone, out of one's gourd, bedlamite, whacko, 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, nutty, emptyheaded, Feather-brained, more slumberish, slowest, most slumberish, fonder, struck, lovesome, un-conventional, un conventional, simple minded, dim witted, 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, most boneheaded, most lamebrained, more boneheaded, more lamebrained, 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, ditzier, kooky, ditziest, unskeptical, wide-eyed, trustful, kidding oneself, taken in, swallowing whole, easily taken in, falling hook line and sinker, taking the bait, tumbling for, halfbaked, un formed, half baked, under-developed, feeble minded, under developed, un-formed, dullwitted, half witted, more dull witted, more dullwitted, most dull witted, dull witted, most dull-witted, most dullwitted, more dull-witted, quixotic, most squirrelly, more squirrelly, illiterate, unlearned, empty-headed, uneducated, uninformed, ill-judged, over hasty, off the top of head, off top of head, off the top of one's head, overhasty, illconsidered, ill-considered, ill considered, most unadvisable, un-advisable, more unadvisable, off the deep end, un advisable, 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 sipid, in-nocuous, in nocuous, wishywashy, wishy-washy, wishy washy, in-sipid, in-discreet, in-sensitive, in discreet, in sensitive, 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-judicious, in judicious, in-sensate, in sensate, 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, swimmy, vertiginous, bird brained, featherweight, of no account, Imponderous, more gelastic, most gelastic, more antic, most antic, most comic, psyched out, 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, faked-out, led up the garden path, unwarranted, faked out, disinformed, uncalled for, weak, nerdy, feebleminded, jerky, un-usual, un usual, out question, un-thinkable, farout, un thinkable, taking cake, out the question, 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, grotesque, curious, comical, dubious, outrageous, poppycock, oddball, weird, 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, Purportless, doublespeak, without rhyme or reason, shallower, uncritical, 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, softer, more thick headed, dummiest, dummier, most thick headed, more loser, most thick-headed, more thick-headed, most loser, out lunch, thick headed, lowdown, low-down, low-down-and-dirty, thickwitted, thick witted, Irreflective, unheeding, half-wit, defective, unintellectual, un-intelligent, un intelligent, 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, more emptied, un-comprehending, more airheaded, un comprehending, most emptied, most airheaded, self willed, more selfwilled, most self willed, un fettered, un-manageable, un bridled, un-governable, more self-willed, most selfwilled, un disciplined, un manageable, un controlled, un-fettered, most self-willed, un-controlled, un-bridled, more self willed, selfwilled, fooler, feel/look small, hasty, ability, planned, tomfool, unearthly, balmy, knowledge, anserine, asinine, cockamamy, dopy, fool, insane, mindless, gooselike, rattlepated, sappy, whacky, scatty, scatterbrained, goosy, zany, goosey, rattlebrained, fond, wilder, study at absurd, improvident

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