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1
a foolish act or idea
- the American purchase of Alaska was originally considered a grand folly
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2
lack of good sense or judgment
- in all my folly, I didn't think about how my actions would hurt my father
Synonyms for folly
- absurdity,
- asininity,
- balminess,
- brainlessness,
- craziness,
- daftness,
- dippiness,
- dottiness,
- fatuity,
- fatuousness,
- foolishness,
- imbecility,
- inanity,
- insanity,
- lunacy,
- madness,
- nonsensicalness,
- nuttiness,
- preposterousness,
- senselessness,
- silliness,
- simplicity,
- unwisdom,
- wackiness,
- witlessness,
- zaniness
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- denseness,
- dim-wittedness,
- doltishness,
- dopiness,
- dullness
- (also dulness),
- dumbness,
- feeblemindedness,
- gormlessness
- [chiefly British],
- idiocy,
- mindlessness,
- oafishness,
- obtuseness,
- simplemindedness,
- simpleness,
- slowness,
- stupidity,
- stupidness,
- vacuity
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3
language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
- enough of this folly about moving to the Australian outback
Synonyms for folly
- applesauce
- [slang],
- balderdash,
- baloney
- (also boloney),
- beans,
- bilge,
- blah
- (also blah-blah),
- blarney,
- blather,
- blatherskite,
- blither,
- bosh,
- bull
- [slang],
- bunk,
- bunkum
- (or buncombe),
- claptrap,
- codswallop
- [British],
- crapola
- [slang],
- crock,
- drivel,
- drool,
- fiddle,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fiddlesticks,
- flannel
- [British],
- flapdoodle,
- folderol
- (also falderal),
- foolishness,
- fudge,
- garbage,
- guff,
- hogwash,
- hokeypokey,
- hokum,
- hoodoo,
- hooey,
- horsefeathers
- [slang],
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- jazz,
- malarkey
- (also malarky),
- moonshine,
- muck,
- nerts
- [slang],
- nonsense,
- nuts,
- piffle,
- poppycock,
- punk,
- rot,
- rubbish,
- senselessness,
- silliness,
- slush,
- stupidity,
- taradiddle
- (or tarradiddle),
- tommyrot,
- tosh,
- trash,
- trumpery,
- twaddle
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