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fool
Synonyms and Antonyms of fool
- Only a fool would attempt to climb that mountain unprepared.
booby, cuckoo, featherhead, goose, half-wit, lunatic, mooncalf, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nitwit, nut, simpleton, turkey, yo-yo
airhead, birdbrain, blockhead, cretin, dodo, dolt, donkey, dope, dork [slang], dumbbell, dummy, dunce, fathead, gander, goon, half-wit, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, know-nothing, knucklehead, moron, numskull (or numbskull), pinhead, stock
butt, dupe, laughingstock, mockery, monkey
chump, loser, schlemiel (also shlemiel)
character, codger, crackbrain, crackpot, crank, kook, oddball, screwball, weirdo
- A king's fool could get away with saying things that others in the palace couldn't.
- I'm a fool for ice cream—virtually any flavor.
fool
Synonyms and Antonyms of fool
- He's always got some fool plan or other.
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
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
out to lunch
fool
Synonyms and Antonyms of fool
- I fooled him into thinking that we were driving to the store, not to his surprise birthday party.
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
- an edgy comedian fooling with an appreciative college audience
crack wise
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