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foolish

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Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

resulting from or showing a lack of sense; ill-considered: unwise:
a foolish action;
a foolish speech.
Synonyms: thoughtless, imprudent, preposterous, nonsensical, absurd, ridiculous, unintelligent, senseless, brainless, witless, stupid
lacking forethought or caution.
Synonyms: incautious, heedless, half-baked, foolhardy, reckless, rash, impetuous, thoughtless, imprudent
trifling, insignificant, or paltry.
Synonyms: picayune, trivial

foolish

/ ˈfuːlɪʃ /

Origin of foolish¹

First recorded in 1250–1300; from Middle English folish, foolish; fool ¹, -ish ¹

Sweden explores new frontiers in our misguided, foolish, pointless obsession with rating and censoring entertainment.

One strip, Foolish Grandpa and Sour Henry, shows Grandpa being hit on the head by a sandbag and blown up by dynamite.

McConnell did what he did in 2005, and he was foolish enough to boast about it in public less than two weeks before an election.

The only thing these “tests” reveal is a window into the foolish psyche of whomever applies them.

Bradlee felt deceived by his friends but, “with both of them gone from my life, resentment seemed foolish.”

It's an idle question, I know; wise men and musty philosophers say that regrets are foolish.

For others life is but a foolish leisure with mock activities and mimic avocations to mask its uselessness.

More foolish, more culpable weakness was never shown than in thus yielding to these schemes.

They that sit on mount Seir, and the Philistines, and the foolish people that dwell in Sichem.

Feeling sixteen and very foolish, she sank to the edge of a chair and muttered something about the charm of the room.

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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