What is another word for foolish?
1195 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ fˈuːlɪʃ], [ fˈuːlɪʃ], [ f_ˈuː_l_ɪ_ʃ]Table of Contents
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.
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Adjective
ridiculous, nonsensical, crazy, senseless, imprudent, absurd, unreasonable, preposterous, dumb, insane, foolhardy, mindless, misguided, inadvisable, injudicious, ignorant, irresponsible, ill-advised, daft, thoughtless.
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nonsensical, idiotic
practical, sensible, unfoolish, smart, reasonable, rational, serious, circumspect, realistic, sane, responsible, careful, cautious, balanced, prudent, sound, logical, plain, thoughtful.
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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.
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