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foolish
Synonyms and Antonyms of foolish
- foolish people who thought that the world would end in the year 2000
- a foolish scheme that was supposed to make us all rich
absurd, asinine, balmy, brainless, bubbleheaded, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, fatuous, featherheaded, fool, half-baked, harebrained, half-witted, 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, boobish, brain-dead, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, clueless, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, feebleminded, gormless [chiefly British], 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, nonrational, surd, unreasonable, unreasoning, unsound, weak
- foolish attempts to construct a perpetual motion machine
absurd, bizarre, crazy, fanciful, fantastic (also fantastical), insane, nonsensical, preposterous, unreal, wild
implausible, inconceivable, incredible, unbelievable, unimaginable, unthinkable
bizarro, curious, eccentric, far-out, funny, kinky, kooky (also kookie), odd, outlandish, out-of-the-way, outré, peculiar, quaint, queer, queerish, quirky, screwy, strange, wacky (also whacky), way-out, weird
farcical, laughable, ludicrous, ridiculous
off the wall [slang]
- the current regulations are cluttered with foolish details that are unnecessarily burdensome
Synonym Discussion of foolish
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- considered people simple who had trouble with computers
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- foolish stunts
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- the silly antics of revelers
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- fatuous conspiracy theories
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- an asinine plot
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