Foolish

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  • adjective. Lacking or exhibiting a lack of good sense or judgment; silly.
  • adjective. Capable of arousing laughter; absurd or ridiculous.
  • adjective. Embarrassed; abashed.
  • adjective. Insignificant; trivial.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Like a fool; manifesting folly; deficient in understanding, sense, or discretion; weak in intellect or judgment; unwise.
  • Proceeding from or prompted by folly; exhibiting a want of discretion or discrimination; silly; vain; trifling.
  • Ridiculous; contemptible.
  • Denoting or indicative of folly.
  • Slight; insignificant.
  • Synonyms Silly, Foolish (see absurd); shallow, brainless, harebrained, simple.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise.
  • adjective. Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion.
  • adjective. Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
  • adjective. Resembling or characteristic of a fool.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. having or revealing stupidity
  • adjective. devoid of good sense or judgment
  • Word Usage
    "BRAHIMI: The minister also said that the U.S. and Britain were preparing to launch what he called a foolish and stupid attack, that Iraq was preparing for that, while it was at the same time doing all it could to cooperate and avert war."
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    Words with the opposite meaning
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    unwise  
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    ghoulish  
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    reckless  romantic  stupid  unhappy  weak  
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    Pickwickian  absurd  absurd  airy  apish