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adjective

Foolish adj.

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."

Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion; as, a foolish act.

Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible. " A foolish figure he must make."

Synonyms: Absurd; shallow; shallow-brained; brainless; simple; irrational; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet; incautious; silly; ridiculous; vain; trifling; contemptible. See Absurd.

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"Foolish" Quotes from Famous Books

... Brooke Parnell, created Baron Congleton in 1841. His great-grandfather was that Sir John Parnell who was long Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer, and an active supporter of Grattan in his struggle against the Union; his grandfather, William Parnell, sat for County Wicklow, and published in 1819 a foolish political novel, anything but Irish in sentiment; his mother, Delia Tudor Stewart, was daughter of Admiral Charles Stewart, of the United States Navy. He was educated at Yeovil and elsewhere in England under private masters, ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 • Various

... warmth of my house, making sure he would have returned, but he was never there. The third time I had gone a mile out to the gamekeeper's to give him money if Argus should be found, and I asked him as many questions and as foolish as a woman would ask. Then I sat up right into the night, thinking that every movement of the wind outside or of the drip of water was the little pad of his step coming up the flagstones to the door. I was even in the mood when men see unreal things, and twice I thought ...

— On Nothing & Kindred Subjects • Hilaire Belloc

... years, but garnered in my brain Is that swift wit which used to flash and cut them like a sword— And now I hear in Babylon, in Babylon, in Babylon, The foolish tongues in Babylon, of those ...

— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various

... that I have been so foolish as to seek a woman in Monsieur de Nucingen's behoof, because he was half mad with love. That is the cause of my being out of favor, for it would seem that quite unconsciously I ...

— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac

... Rachel knew that for the hundredth time he was regretting his own past weakness. He had been so foolish in money matters, frittering away his once considerable capital in aimless speculations. He and his sister had shared equally under their father's will, but while he had been at last compelled to sink the greater part ...

— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors

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