foolish

foolish
    adj 1: devoid of good sense or judgment; "foolish remarks"; "a
           foolish decision" [ant: {wise}]
    2: having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine
       behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea
       about rewriting authors' books" [syn: {anserine}, {dopy},
       {dopey}, {foolish}, {goosey}, {goosy}, {gooselike}, {jerky}]
    

Foolish \Fool"ish\, a.
   1. Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding;
      weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly;
      unwise.
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            I am a very foolish fond old man.     --Shak.
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   2. Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind
      or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion;
      as, a foolish act.
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   3. Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible.
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            A foolish figure he must make.        --Prior.

   Syn: Absurd; shallow; shallow-brained; brainless; simple;
        irrational; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet; incautious;
        silly; ridiculous; vain; trifling; contemptible. See
        {Absurd}.
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194 Moby Thesaurus words for "foolish":
      Pickwickian, absurd, airy, apish, arch, asinine, batty, befooled,
      beguiled, bemused, besotted, beyond belief, bizarre, blockheaded,
      boneheaded, brainless, brash, buffoonish, catchpenny, cockamamie,
      cockeyed, confused, crazy, credulous, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dazed,
      demented, devilish, dim, dim-witted, dippy, dizzy, dopey, doting,
      dotty, dull-witted, dumb, elfish, elvish, empty, empty-headed,
      erratic, extravagant, fantastic, fatuitous, fatuous, feebleminded,
      flaky, flimsy, fond, fool, foolhardy, foolheaded, fribble,
      fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fuddled, full of mischief, futile,
      gaga, goofy, grotesque, gulled, hasty, headless, headlong,
      heedless, high-flown, high-spirited, idiotic, idle, ignorant,
      ill-advised, ill-considered, illogical, imbecile, imbecilic,
      impetuous, impish, impolitic, imprudent, inane, incautious,
      incredible, indiscreet, inept, infatuated, injudicious, insane,
      insensate, irrational, knavish, kooky, lackbrained, laughable,
      lean-minded, lean-witted, light, light-headed, loony, ludicrous,
      mad, maudlin, mindless, mischief-loving, mischievous, misguided,
      monstrous, moronic, nonsensical, not bright, nugacious, nugatory,
      numskulled, nuts, nutty, obtuse, of little brain, otiose,
      outrageous, outre, pea-brained, pin-brained, playful, poppycockish,
      potty, prankish, pranksome, pranky, preposterous, puckish, rash,
      reasonless, reckless, ridiculous, roguish, rubbishy, sappy,
      scampish, scapegrace, scatterbrained, screwy, senseless,
      sentimental, shallow, short-sighted, silly, skimble-skamble,
      slackminded, slackwitted, slender, slight, slow-witted, sportive,
      stolid, stupid, superficial, thick, thickheaded, thoughtless,
      trashy, trickish, tricksy, trifling, trite, trivial, twaddling,
      twaddly, ungifted, unintellectual, unintelligent, unorthodox,
      unreasonable, unreasoning, unstable, untalented, unthinking,
      unwary, unwise, unwitty, vacuous, vain, vapid, wacky, waggish,
      weak-minded, weird, wet, wild, windy, witless