fool

Synonyms

addict, aficionado (also afficionado), buff, bug, devotee, enthusiast, fan, fanatic, fancier, fiend, freak, habitué (also habitue), head, hound, junkie (also junky), lover, maniac, maven (also mavin), nut, sucker;

Antonyms

nonfan;

Near Antonyms

nonadmirer;

belittler, carper, critic, detractor;

Related Words

groupie;

admirer, amateur, collector, connoisseur, dilettante;

authority, expert;

adherent, convert, cultist, disciple, follower, hanger-on, votary;

advocate, apostle, backer, champion, evangelist, exponent, friend, patron, promoter, proponent, supporter;

partisan (also partizan), zealot;

booster, rooter, well-wisher;

faddist;

Synonyms

absurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, fatuous, featherheaded, foolish, half-baked, half-witted, harebrained, inept, insane, jerky, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, lunkheaded, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, simpleminded, stupid, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany;

Antonyms

judicious, prudent, sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, sensible, sound, wise;

Near Antonyms

brainy, bright, clever, intelligent, smart;

logical, rational, reasonable, valid;

well-advised;

Related Words

airheaded, birdbrained, brain-dead, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, clueless, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, feebleminded, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), mindless, moronic, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, thoughtless, thick, thickheaded, unintelligent, vacuous, witless;

fallacious, illogical, invalid, irrational, unreasonable, unreasoning, unsound, weak;

farcical, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous;

notional;

buffoonish, clownish;

ill-advised, unconsidered, unreasoned;

Phrases

out to lunch;

Synonyms

bamboozle, beguile, bluff, buffalo, burn, catch, con, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fake out, gaff, gull, have, hoax, hoodwink, humbug, juggle, misguide, misinform, mislead, snow, spoof, string along, take in, trick;

Antonyms

undeceive;

Near Antonyms

debunk, expose, reveal, show up, uncloak, uncover, unmask;

disclose, divulge, tell, unveil;

disabuse, disenchant, disillusion;

Related Words

kid, put on, tease;

bleed, cheat, chisel, defraud, diddle, euchre, flam, fleece, gyp, hustle, mulct, rook, shortchange, skin, squeeze, stick, sting, swindle;

Phrases

do a number on, lead one down the garden path (also lead one up the garden path), pull one's leg, pull the wool over one's eyes;