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folly

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of folly

1 a foolish act or idea
  • The American purchase of Alaska was originally considered a grand folly.
Synonyms of folly

absurdity, asininity, fatuity, foolery, foppery, idiocy, imbecility, inanity, insanity, lunacy, stupidity
Words Related to folly

absurdness, craziness, foolishness, inaneness, madness, senselessness, witlessness

buffoonery, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery

drivel, humbug, nonsense, twaddle

blunder, bungle, flub, goof, howler
Near Antonyms of folly

discretion, forethought, prudence, sagacity, wisdom

brainstorm, inspiration
2 lack of good sense or judgment
  • In all my folly, I didn't think about how my actions would hurt my father.
Synonyms of folly

absurdity, asininity, balminess, brainlessness, craziness, daftness, dippiness, dottiness, fatuity, fatuousness, foolishness, imbecility, inanity, insanity, lunacy, madness, nonsensicalness, nuttiness, preposterousness, senselessness, silliness, simplicity, wackiness, witlessness, zaniness
Words Related to folly

denseness, dim-wittedness, doltishness, dopiness, dullness (also dulness), dumbness, feeblemindedness, idiocy, mindlessness, oafishness, obtuseness, simplemindedness, simpleness, slowness, stupidity, stupidness, vacuity

fallacy, irrationality, unreasonableness

kookiness, weirdness

laughableness, ludicrousness, ridiculousness
Near Antonyms of folly

logicality, logicalness, rationality, rationalness, reasonability, reasonableness, validity

discernment, insight, perception, percipience
Antonyms of folly

prudence, sagaciousness, sagacity, sageness, sanity, sapience, sensibleness, soundness, wisdom
3 language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
  • enough of this folly about moving to the Australian outback
Synonyms of folly

balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blarney, blather, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, drivel, folderol (also falderal), foolishness, fudge, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hooey, humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rot, rubbish, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, tommyrot, trash, trumpery, twaddle
Words Related to folly

absurdity, asininity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy

absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness

monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery

gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole)

double-talk, hocus-pocus
Near Antonyms of folly

levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness

common sense, horse sense, sense

discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom

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