Fool
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English
Noun
Fool (plural Fools)- (pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
- (historical, dated) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court.
- Someone who very much likes something specified.
- A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
- (often capitalized, Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck.
Verb
Fool (third-person singular simple present fools, present participle fooling, simple past and past participle fooled)
- To trick; to make a fool of someone.
Verbs for Fool
appear like—; play the—; prove oneself a—; put the—upon; remain—; ridicule—; suspect oneself—; think one a—; turn—; —apes; —beckons; —capers; —complains; —counterfeits; —disregards; —diverts; — dotes; —gambols; —ignores; —jests; —lets slip; —mistakes; —possesses; —prates; — preaches; —sidles; —mocks.
Adverbs for Fool
amiably; ignorantly; wantonly; pitifully; blindly; hatefully; vulgarly; tediously; clumsily; unfeelingly; ungratefully; venomously; deliberately; sportively; shallowly.
Synonyms for Fool
- (person with poor judgment): See also Thesaurus:fool
- (person who entertained a sovereign): jester, joker
- (person who talks a lot of nonsense): gobshite
- (verb) : trick, deceive, cheat, delude, con, dupe, pretend, make believe, hoodwink, mystify.
Antonyms for Foool
- (verb): honor, respect, disabuse, clarify, authenticate.
Derived terms
Thesaurus
asinine, ass, babe, bamboozle, banter, batty, be foolish, be stupid, befool, befooled, beguiled, besotted, birdbrain, blockhead, bluff, bonehead, boob, booby, brainless, buffo, buffoon, buffoonish, busybody, butt, butt in, byword, byword of reproach, cavort, cheat, chouse, chucklehead, chump, cinch, clod, clodpate, clodpoll, clown, clown around, cockeyed, come-on, comedian, comedienne, comic, con, coquet, cozen, crazy, credulous, credulous person, cretin, cull, dabble, dabbler, daffy, daft, dally, dawdle, dazed, deceive, defraud, delude, derision, dilettante, dimwit, dizzy, dolt, donkey, doodle, dope, doting, droll, dumb, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, entertainer, fair game, fake, fake out, fall guy, farceur, fatuitous, fatuous, featherbrain, featherhead, feign, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle-faddle, fidget with, figure of fun, finger with, fish, flaky, fleece, flirt, fond, fool around, fool with, foolheaded, foolish, footle, fribble, frivol, frolic, fuddled, futile, gaga, gambol, game, gazingstock, get funny, git, go haywire, goat, gobe-mouches, goofy, goon, goose, greener, greenhorn, greeny, gudgeon, gull, gulled, half-wit, harlequin, hoax, hoodwink, horn in, horse around, humbug, idiot, idiotic, idle, ignoramus, illiterate, illiterati, imbecile, inane, inept, infatuated, innocent, insane, instrument, interfere, interlope, intermeddle, invite ridicule, jack-pudding, jackass, jay, jerk, jerk off, jest, jester, jestingstock, joke, joker, jokester, josh, kid, kid around, know-nothing, kooky, laughingstock, lead on, leadpipe cinch, loiter, loon, loony, loser, lowbrow, mad, madman, make, make believe, mark, maudlin, meddle with, merry-andrew, mess around, middlebrow, mislead, mockery, monkey, monkey around, monkey with, mooncalf, moron, moronic, motley, motley fool, mug, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nit, nitwit, no scholar, numskull, nutty, oaf, patsy, pickle-herring, piddle, pigeon, pinhead, play, play around, play the buffoon, play the fool, play with, plaything, pluck, poop, potter, pretend, prize sap, puddinghead, pushover, put one on, putter, rattlebrain, retard, romp, sap, saphead, sappy, scatterbrain, schlemiel, schmuck, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, simple, simpleton, sitting duck, smatter, snow, softhead, spoof, stock, stooge, string along, stupid, sucker, swindle, take in, tamper, tamper with, target, tease, tenderfoot, thoughtless, tinker, tomfool, tool, toy, toy with, trick, trifle, trifle with, trusting soul, twiddle, twist, twit, unintelligentsia, victim, wacky, wanton, wet, witless, zany
Etymology
From Middle English fōl (“fool”) from Old French fol (French fou (“mad”)) from Latin follis.
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Etymology
See English fool.
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Fool (plural Fools)
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