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foolish
Overview of adj foolish
The adj foolish has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (6) foolish -- (devoid of good sense or judgment; "foolish remarks"; "a foolish decision")
2. anserine, dopy, dopey, foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike, jerky -- (having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books")
Grep of noun foolish
foolish woman
foolishness
Antonyms of adj foolish
2 senses of foolish
Sense 1
foolish (vs. wise)
wise (vs. foolish)
=> all-knowing, omniscient
=> perspicacious, sagacious, sapient
=> owlish
=> sapiential
=> sage
Sense 2
anserine, dopy, dopey, foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike, jerky
INDIRECT (VIA stupid) -> smart
Similarity of adj foolish
2 senses of foolish
Sense 1
foolish (vs. wise)
=> absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous
=> asinine, fatuous, inane, mindless, vacuous
=> cockamamie, cockamamy, goofy, sappy, silly, wacky, whacky, zany
=> fond
=> harebrained, insane, mad
=> ill-conceived, misguided
=> rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained, scatty
=> unwise
Also See> impolitic#1; imprudent#1; inadvisable#1, unadvisable#1; ill-advised#1, unadvised#1
Sense 2
anserine, dopy, dopey, foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike, jerky
=> stupid (vs. smart)
Pertainyms of adj foolish
Attributes of adj foolish
Domain of adj foolish
1 of 2 senses of foolish
Sense 2
anserine, dopy, dopey, foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike, jerky
USAGE>(noun) colloquialism#1
Domain Terms of adj foolish
Familiarity of adj foolish
foolish used as an adjective is rare (polysemy count =2)
Grep of adj foolish
foolish
pound-foolish
Grep of adv foolish
foolishly
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