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.
  •all (adjective)
  • foolish.
  •asinine (adjective)
  • more cretinous,
  • most cretinous.
  •babyish (adjective)
  • sissiest,
  • sissier.
  •balmy (adjective)
  • mentally incompetent,
  • bugged out,
  • oddest,
  • pottiest,
  • pottier,
  • potty.
  •brainless (adjective)
  • most anencephalic,
  • most anencephalous,
  • more anencephalic,
  • more anencephalous.
  •childish (adjective)
  • in-nocent,
  • more infantine,
  • in nocent,
  • un-sophisticated,
  • green,
  • un sophisticated,
  • most infantine.
  •crazy (adjective)
  • 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.
  •daffy (adjective)
  • most clownish,
  • more clownish.
  •daft (adjective)
  • in the ozone,
  • out of one's gourd,
  • bedlamite,
  • whacko.
  •demented (adjective)
  • 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.
  •deranged (adjective)
  • nutty.
  •dizzy (adjective)
  • emptyheaded,
  • Feather-brained.
  •dopey (adjective)
  • more slumberish,
  • slowest,
  • most slumberish.
  •doting (adjective)
  • fonder,
  • struck,
  • lovesome.
  •dotty (adjective)
  • un-conventional,
  • un conventional.
  •dumb (adjective)
  • simple minded,
  • dim witted.
  •extravagant (adjective)
  • 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.
  •fantastic (adjective)
  • 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.
  •fatuous (adjective)
  • most boneheaded,
  • most lamebrained,
  • more boneheaded,
  • more lamebrained.
  •foolish (adjective)
  • imbecilic,
  • meat-headed,
  • blithering,
  • chuckle-headed,
  • doltish,
  • dim-witted,
  • knuckle-headed,
  • lame-brained,
  • ignorant,
  • nitwit,
  • jackass,
  • crackpot,
  • bone-headed,
  • blockheaded.
  •frivolous (adjective)
  • 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.
  •goofy (adjective)
  • ditzier,
  • kooky,
  • ditziest.
  •gullible (adjective)
  • unskeptical,
  • wide-eyed,
  • trustful,
  • kidding oneself,
  • taken in,
  • swallowing whole,
  • easily taken in,
  • falling hook line and sinker,
  • taking the bait,
  • tumbling for.
  •half-baked (adjective)
  • halfbaked,
  • un formed,
  • half baked,
  • under-developed,
  • feeble minded,
  • under developed,
  • un-formed.
  •half-witted (adjective)
  • dullwitted,
  • half witted,
  • more dull witted,
  • more dullwitted,
  • most dull witted,
  • dull witted,
  • most dull-witted,
  • most dullwitted,
  • more dull-witted.
  •idealistic (adjective)
  • quixotic.
  •idiotic (adjective)
  • most squirrelly,
  • more squirrelly.
  •ignorant (adjective)
  • illiterate,
  • unlearned,
  • empty-headed,
  • uneducated,
  • uninformed.
  •ill-advised (adjective)
  • ill-judged,
  • over hasty,
  • off the top of head,
  • off top of head,
  • off the top of one's head,
  • overhasty.
  •ill-considered (adjective)
  • illconsidered,
  • ill-considered,
  • ill considered.
  •imprudent (adjective)
  • most unadvisable,
  • un-advisable,
  • more unadvisable,
  • off the deep end,
  • un advisable.
  •inadvisable (adjective)
  • 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.
  •inane (adjective)
  • in sipid,
  • in-nocuous,
  • in nocuous,
  • wishywashy,
  • wishy-washy,
  • wishy washy,
  • in-sipid.
  •indiscreet (adjective)
  • in-discreet,
  • in-sensitive,
  • in discreet,
  • in sensitive.
  •infatuated (adjective)
  • 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.
  •injudicious (adjective)
  • in-judicious,
  • in judicious.
  •insensate (adjective)
  • in-sensate,
  • in sensate.
  •irrational (adjective)
  • 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.
  •light-headed (adjective)
  • swimmy,
  • vertiginous.
  •lightheaded (adjective)
  • bird brained.
  •lightweight (adjective)
  • featherweight,
  • of no account,
  • Imponderous.
  •ludicrous (adjective)
  • more gelastic,
  • most gelastic,
  • more antic,
  • most antic,
  • most comic.
  •lunatic (adjective)
  • psyched out.
  •mad (adjective)
  • 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.
  •mindless (adjective)
  • 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.
  •misguided (adjective)
  • faked-out,
  • led up the garden path,
  • unwarranted,
  • faked out,
  • disinformed,
  • uncalled for.
  •nonsensical, idiotic (adjective)
  • weak,
  • nerdy,
  • feebleminded,
  • jerky.
  •nuts/nutty (adjective)
  • un-usual,
  • un usual.
  •preposterous (adjective)
  • out question,
  • un-thinkable,
  • farout,
  • un thinkable,
  • taking cake,
  • out the question.
  •puerile (adjective)
  • un fledged,
  • more unfledged,
  • un grown,
  • un-grown,
  • in-experienced,
  • more babylike,
  • in experienced,
  • more ungrown,
  • most ungrown,
  • most unfledged,
  • un-fledged,
  • most babylike.
  •rich (adjective)
  • more slaying,
  • more side splitting,
  • more splitting,
  • most side-splitting,
  • most slaying,
  • more side-splitting,
  • most splitting,
  • side splitting,
  • most side splitting.
  •ridiculous (adjective)
  • grotesque,
  • curious,
  • comical,
  • dubious,
  • outrageous,
  • poppycock,
  • oddball,
  • weird.
  •rustic (adjective)
  • 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.
  •senseless (adjective)
  • Purportless,
  • doublespeak,
  • without rhyme or reason.
  •shallow (adjective)
  • shallower,
  • uncritical.
  •sheepish (adjective)
  • most mortified,
  • more mortified,
  • more chagrined,
  • self conscious,
  • most chagrined,
  • selfconscious,
  • re tiring,
  • re-tiring,
  • un comfortable,
  • un-comfortable.
  •short-sighted (adjective)
  • more near-sighted,
  • short sighted,
  • more near sighted,
  • near sighted,
  • most near-sighted,
  • most near sighted.
  •shortsighted (adjective)
  • 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.
  •soft (adjective)
  • softer.
  •stupid (adjective)
  • more thick headed,
  • dummiest,
  • dummier,
  • most thick headed,
  • more loser,
  • most thick-headed,
  • more thick-headed,
  • most loser,
  • out lunch,
  • thick headed.
  •tasteless (adjective)
  • lowdown,
  • low-down,
  • low-down-and-dirty.
  •thick-witted (adjective)
  • thickwitted,
  • thick witted.
  •thoughtless (adjective)
  • Irreflective,
  • unheeding.
  •unintellectual (adjective)
  • half-wit,
  • defective,
  • unintellectual.
  •unintelligent (adjective)
  • un-intelligent,
  • un intelligent.
  •unreasonable (adjective)
  • in-consequential,
  • full hot air,
  • quirky,
  • in consequential,
  • un reasoned,
  • un-reasonable,
  • un reasonable,
  • un-reasoned.
  •unthinking (adjective)
  • 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.
  •vacant (adjective)
  • in-expressive,
  • in expressive,
  • in curious,
  • in-curious,
  • most unexpressive,
  • un expressive,
  • more unexpressive,
  • un-expressive.
  •vacuous (adjective)
  • more emptied,
  • un-comprehending,
  • more airheaded,
  • un comprehending,
  • most emptied,
  • most airheaded.
  •wild (adjective)
  • 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.
  •zany (adjective)
  • fooler.

• n.

  •
  • feel/look small.
  •
  • hasty,
  • ability,
  • planned.
  •
  • tomfool,
  • unearthly,
  • balmy,
  • knowledge.
  •anserine (noun)
  • anserine.
  •asinine (noun)
  • asinine.
  •cockamamy (noun)
  • cockamamy.
  •dopy (noun)
  • dopy.
  •fool (noun)
  • fool.
  •foolish (noun)
  • insane,
  • mindless,
  • gooselike,
  • rattlepated,
  • sappy,
  • whacky,
  • scatty,
  • scatterbrained,
  • goosy,
  • zany,
  • goosey,
  • rattlebrained,
  • fond.
  •imprudent (noun)
  • wilder.
  •silly (noun)
  • study at absurd.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • 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.
  •imprudent
  • injudicious.
  •infatuated
  • moonstruck.
  •witless
  • subnormal.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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.

Paraphrases for Foolish:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    silly, unwise, ludicrous, idiotic.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    nonsense, pointless, reckless, irrational, illusory, unconscious, brainless, illogical, laughable, madness, mad, idiots, naive, meaningless, farcical, asinine, grotesque, sensible, witless, rubbish, reasonable, Dom, pathetic, careless, lame, childish, dummy, futile.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    ridiculous, nonsensical, crazy, senseless, imprudent, absurd, unreasonable, preposterous, dumb, insane, foolhardy, mindless, misguided, inadvisable, injudicious, ignorant, irresponsible, ill-advised, daft, thoughtless.

Antonyms for Foolish:

• adj.

  • all
    wise.
  • nonsensical, idiotic
    practical, sensible, unfoolish, smart, reasonable, rational, serious, circumspect, realistic, sane, responsible, careful, cautious, balanced, prudent, sound, logical, plain, thoughtful.
  • Other antonyms:
    fundamental, distinguished, valid, renowned, great, indubitable, fateful, undeniable, incontrovertible, demonstrated, eminent, decisive, important, significant, incontestable, consequential, impressive, notorious, key, indisputable, chief, big, well-advised, material, overbearing, meaningful, preeminent, valuable, established, illustrious, certain, worthwhile, eventful, basic, dominant, all-important, major, true, famous, distinctive, unquestionable, remarkable, prominent, momentous, consistent, substantial, outstanding, prestigious, fatal, worthy, infallible, principal, overmastering, essential, overriding, demonstrable.