Word Meanings - FOOLISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise. I am a very foolish fond old man. Shak. 2. Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness;

Additional info about word: FOOLISH

1. Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise. I am a very foolish fond old man. Shak. 2. Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion; as, a foolish act. 3. Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible. A foolish figure he must make. Prior. Syn. -- Absurd; shallow; shallow-brained; brainless; simple; irrational; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet; incautious; silly; ridiculous; vain; trifling; contemptible. See Absurd.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FOOLISH)

• Absurd
• Irrational
• ridiculous
• monstrous
• senseless
• asinine
• stupid
• chimerical
• unreasonable
• preposterous
• silly
• nonsensical
• foolish
• Childish
• Weak
• puerile
• infantine
• imbecile
• trifling
• paltry
• trivial
• Fond
• Loving
• attached
• affectionate
• weak
• doting
• empty
• enamored
• devoted
• Hollow \adj
• (Metaphor)
• Empty
• concave
• faithless
• insincere
• artificial
• unsubstantial
• void
• flimsy
• transparent
• vacant
• unsound
• false
• Imbecile
• Foolish
• idiotic
• fatuous

Related words: (words related to FOOLISH)

• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• LOVAGE
  An umbelliferous plant , sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant. (more info) indigenous to Liguria, lovage, from Ligusticus Ligustine, Ligurian,
• LOVING
  1. Affectionate. The fairest and most loving wife in Greece. Tennyson. 2. Expressing love or kindness; as, loving words.
• CONCAVED
  Bowed in the form of an arch; -- called also arched.
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• IRRATIONAL
  Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd. Syn. -- Absurd; foolish; preposterous; unreasonable; senseless. See Absurd. (more info) 1. Not rational; void of
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• DOTATION
  1. The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman. 2. Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation. Blackstone.
• CONCAVE
  1. Hollow and curved or rounded; vaulted; -- said of the interior of a curved surface or line, as of the curve of the of the inner surface of an eggshell, in opposition to convex; as, a concave mirror; the concave arch of the sky. 2. Hollow; void
• LOVERWISE
  As lovers do. As they sat down here loverwise. W. D. Howells.
• SILLYHOW
  A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
• DOTISH
  Foolish; weak; imbecile. Sir W. Scott.
• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• LOVELILY
  In manner to excite love; amiably. Otway.
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• IMBECILE
  Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane. Syn. -- Weak; feeble; feeble-minded; idiotic.
• VACANTLY
  In a vacant manner; inanely.
• FAITHLESS
  1. Not believing; not giving credit. Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 27. 2. Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion. Shak. 3. Not observant of promises or covenants. 4. Not true
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• SELF-LOVE
  The love of one's self; desire of personal happiness; tendency to seek one's own benefit or advantage. Shak. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope. Syn. -- Selfishness. -- Self-love, Selfishness. The term self-love is used
• SACERDOTAL
  Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests; relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity; sacerdotal functions. The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belongs
• ENDOTHECIUM
  The inner lining of an another cell.
• CLOVEN
  from Cleave, v. t. To show the cloven foot or hoof, to reveal a devilish character, or betray an evil purpose, notwithstanding disguises, -- Satan being represented dramatically and symbolically as having cloven hoofs.
• SACERDOTALISM
  The system, style, spirit, or character, of a priesthood, or sacerdotal order; devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order.