Folly
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English
Noun
Folly (plural follies)- foolishness
- thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence
- a fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons
Adjectives for Folly
sheer; ludicrous; violent; prostrate; wilful; gratuitous; vain; shouting; stupendous; industrious; crowning; derogatory; egregious; serious; rash; present; deplorable; superfluous; sordid; idiotical; capricious; incurable; human; sentimental; disastrous; daring; amiable; pernicious; extreme; enormous; impious; obvious; ingrained; youthful (pi); amorous; harmless; pretty; wild; glaring; covert; pretentious; incredible; ridiculous; countless (pi); flagrant; repudiated; irritating; repented; repeated; absurd; intermittent (pi).
Verbs for Folly
a of—; balk at—of; commit to—; decry—; deplore—; discern—; emancipate from—; fall into—; flatter into—; guard against—; lure into—; mitigate—; regret—; ridicule—; rue—; run after—ies ; scorn—; uncover—; vex with—; work—.
Synonyms for Folly
foolishness, weakness, silliness, imbecility, absurdity, madness, imprudence, misconduct, fatuity, simplicity, weak-mindedness, shallowness.
Antonyms for Folly
wisdom, prudence, sapience, knowledge, forethought, understanding, discernment, craftiness, judgment, cunning, artfulness, shrewdness, subtlety, astuteness, acuteness, wiliness, cleverness, ingenuity.
Related terms
Thesaurus
absurdity, absurdness, act of folly, asininity, battiness, blunder, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, daftness, desipience, dottiness, dumb trick, dumbness, eccentricity, error, fatuity, fatuousness, faux pas, fluff, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, gaffe, giddiness, goof, goofiness, idiocy, imbecility, imprudence, inanity, indiscretion, ineptitude, insanity, irrationality, kookiness, lunacy, madness, mindlessness, mistake, niaiserie, nonsense, nugacity, nuttiness, obtuseness, preposterousness, queerness, rashness, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, silliness, sottise, stolidity, stolidness, stupid thing, stupidity, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triviality, unwise step, wackiness, weak-mindedness, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism
Etymology
From Old French, fol (“foolish”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒli
