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fool

adj · name · noun · verb · 21 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /fuːl/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • British, Southern, Standard: /fʉwl/
  • British, Southern, Standard: [fʊwl]
  • /foːl/ fool–fall merger
  • Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ful/
  • Australian, New-Zealand: /fʉːl/
  • Australian, New-Zealand: [fuːl]
  • Northern-Ireland, Scotland: /fʉl/
  • homophone: full (accents with foot-goose merger or full–fool merger)
  • homophone: fall (fool–fall merger)
  • rhymes with -uːl
  • CMU ARPABET: F UW1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Foolish.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

Alternative letter-case form of fool (“a particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: derogatory

Examples

  • You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.
  • The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: ignoramus, naif, simpleton, simp, goofus, doofus, dimwit, idiot, imbecile, stultus, buffoon, cuckoo, moron, lunatic, maniac

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

Examples

  • 1896, Frederick Peterson IN Popular Science Monthly Volume 50 December 1896 , Idiots Savants This court fool could say bright things on occasion, but his main use to the ladies and lords of the palace was to serve as victim to practical jokes, cruel, coarse, and vulgar enough to be appreciated perhaps in the Bowery.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: literature, media, publishing

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

Qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Qualifier: often capitalized Fool

Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, philosophy, sciences, tarot

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle

Examples

  • an apricot fool; a gooseberry fool

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

verb

Meaning 12

To trick; to deceive.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

verb

Meaning 13

To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

Examples

  • 1681/1682, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar Is this a time for fooling?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

verb

Meaning 14

To make a fool of; to make act the fool.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: chump, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: victim, dupe

16

noun

Meaning 16

a person who lacks good judgment

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: sap, saphead, muggins, tomfool

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: simpleton, simple

Narrower terms: ass, clown, buffoon, flibbertigibbet, foolish woman, fucker, fathead, goof, goofball, bozo, jackass, goose, cuckoo, twat, zany, meshuggeneh, meshuggener, morosoph, putz, wally

17

noun

Meaning 17

a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: jester, motley fool

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: clown, buffoon, goof, goofball, merry andrew

18

verb

Meaning 18

indulge in horseplay

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!
  • The bored children were fooling about

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: horse around, arse around, fool around

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: joke, jest, play

19

verb

Meaning 19

fool or hoax

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone
  • You can't fool me!

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, put on, take in, put one over, put one across

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: deceive, betray, lead astray

Narrower terms: pull the leg of, kid

20

verb

Meaning 20

spend frivolously and unwisely

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Fritter away one's inheritance

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool away

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: consume, squander, waste, ware

21

verb

Meaning 21

make a fool or dupe of

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gull, befool

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: deceive, lead on, delude, cozen

History

Etymology

From Middle English fol (“fool”), from Old French fol (cf. modern French fou (“mad”)) from Latin follis. Doublet of fals and follis. Displaced native Old English dwæs.

From French fouler (“to trample”).

Across languages

Translations

487 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: flous — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Aghwan: 𐔵𐔰𐕌𐔰𐕙𐔰 (zamara) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Albanian: budalla — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Albanian: idiot — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Albanian: i marrë — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Arabic: مُغَفَّل (muḡaffal) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Arabic: أَحْمَق (ʔaḥmaq) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Arabic: سَفِيه (safīh) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Arabic: جحش — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Arabic: حمار — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Armenian: հիմար (himar) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Asturian: tontu — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Asturian: neciu — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Asturian: ñeciu — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Avar: ахӏмакъ (aḥrmaqxʼ) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Avar: гӏабдал (ʻabdal) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Azerbaijani: abdal — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Azerbaijani: axmaq — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Belarusian: ду́рань (dúranʹ) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Belarusian: кеп (kjep) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Bengali: মূর্খ (murkho) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Bengali: উন্দা বুন্দা (unda bunda) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Bengali: বোকা (bōka) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Bulgarian: абда́л (abdál) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Bulgarian: глупа́к (glupák) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Bulgarian: глупа́чка (glupáčka) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Bulgarian: тъпа́к (tǎpák) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Bulgarian: тъпа́чка (tǎpáčka) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Bulgarian: глупе́ц (glupéc) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Burmese: ဗာလ (bala.) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Catalan: beneit — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Catalan: idiota — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Catalan: tros de quòniam — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Chichewa: chitsiru — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Chinese: 歁囝 (khám-kián) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Chinese Mandarin: 笨蛋 (bèndàn) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Chinese Mandarin: 蠢貨 /蠢货 (chǔnhuò) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Chinese Mandarin: 蠢人 (chǔnrén) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Chinese Mandarin: 呆子 (dāizi) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Chinese Mandarin: 傻瓜 (shǎguā) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Chinese Mandarin: 傻子 (shǎzi) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Chinese Mandarin: 愚人 (yúrén) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Chuvash: ухмах (uhmah) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Cornish: pyst — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Czech: hlupák — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Czech: blázen — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Czech: šašek — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Czech: pošetilec — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Czech: blbec — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Czech: blb — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Czech: blboun — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Czech: pitomec — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Czech: ňouma — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Danish: fjols — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Danish: tåbe — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Danish: grødhoved — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Danish: torsk — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Dutch: dwaas — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Dutch: dwazin — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Dutch: domme gans — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Dutch: imbeciel — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Dutch: imbeciele — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Esperanto: malsaĝulo — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Esperanto: stultulo — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Estonian: loll — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Estonian: narr — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Estonian: tobu — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Estonian: tola — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Faroese: dári — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Faroese: býttlingur — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Finnish: ääliö — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Finnish: daiju — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Finnish: hassu — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Finnish: höhlä — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Finnish: hölmö — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Finnish: höperö — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Finnish: houkka — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Finnish: hullu — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Finnish: hupsu — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Finnish: idiootti — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Finnish: munapää — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Finnish: narri — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Finnish: pöhkö — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Finnish: pöljä — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Finnish: pöllö — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Finnish: tampio — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Finnish: taukki — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Finnish: tollo — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Finnish: tomppeli — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Finnish: typerys — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • French: andouille — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • French: abruti — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • French: couillon — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • French: dinde — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • French: imbécile — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • French: idiot — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • French: twit — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • French: crétin — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Galician: choucho — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Galician: parvo — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Galician: idiota — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Galician: paspán — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Galician: pallouco — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Galician: babeco — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Galician: doudo — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Galician: lores — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Galician: babiolo — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Galician: mascato — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Galician: bolonio — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Georgian: სულელი (suleli) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Georgian: ბრიყვი (briq̇vi) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Georgian: დებილი (debili) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Georgian: იდიოტი (idioṭi) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • German: dumme Gans — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • German: Dummkopf — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • German: Narr — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • German: Närrin — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • German: Pute — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • German: Tor — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • German: Törin — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • German: Trottel — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • German: Lööl — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌰 (unwita) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Greek: ανόητος (anóitos) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Ancient Greek: ἄφρων (áphrōn) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Ancient Greek: μωρός (mōrós) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Gujarati: મૂર્ખ (mūrkh) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Gujarati: મૂરખ (mūrakh) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Gujarati: ચોદુ (codu) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Hebrew: גולם \ גֹּלֶם (gólem) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Hebrew: טִפֵּשׁ \ טיפש (tipésh) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Hebrew: שׁוֹטֶה (shoté) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Hebrew: כְּסִיל (ksil) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Hindi: मूर्ख (mūrkh) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Hungarian: hülye — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Hungarian: bolond — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Icelandic: bjáni — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Indonesian: bego — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Indonesian: tolol — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Ingrian: durakka — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Ingrian: vohma — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Ingrian: hapalka — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Ingrian: oolo — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Ingrian: tuhkuri — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Ingrian: tuhkapää — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Ingrian: tuhkapussi — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Ingrian: foofana — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Ingrian: bolvana — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Irish: amadán — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Irish: óinseach — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Irish: leibide — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Irish: baothán — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Italian: stolto — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Italian: buffone — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Italian: stupido — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Italian: cretino — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Italian: imbecille — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Italian: idiota — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Italian: oca — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Italian: scemo — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Italian: sciocco — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Japanese: 愚か者 (orokamono) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Japanese: 惚け (boke) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Japanese: 馬鹿 (baka) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Japanese: 愚者 (gusha) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Japanese: あほ (aho) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Japanese: アホ (aho) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Japanese: 戯け (tawake) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Javanese: sontoloyo — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Kazakh: ақымақ (aqymaq) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Khmer: ល្ងីល្ងើ (lngii lngəə) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Khmer: មនុស្សល្ងីល្ងើ (mɔnuh lngii lngəə) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Khmer: អាភ្លើ (ʼaaphləə) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Khmer: អាឃ្លោក (ʼaakhlook) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Khmer: អាងោះ (ʼaangŭəh) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Korean: 바보 (babo) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Korean: 백치 (baekchi) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Kyrgyz: акмак (akmak) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Kyrgyz: келесоо (kelesoo) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Lao: ຄົນໂງ່ (khon ngō) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Latgalian: cuļss — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Latgalian: nagudrais — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Latin: stultus — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Latin: mōrus — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Latin: mōra — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Latvian: duraks — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Latvian: muļķis — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Latvian: muļķe — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Latvian: neprātis — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Latvian: neprāte — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Latvian: stulbenis — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Lithuanian: kvailys — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Macedonian: абдал (abdal) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Macedonian: будала (budala) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Malay: bodoh — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Maltese: iqarqu — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Māori: ngoungoua — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Māori: hukehuke — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Māori: hākawa — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Māori: kāeaea — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Māori: poroheahea — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Māori: pōrewarewa — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Māori: wawau — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Marshallese: bōkāro — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tosk — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Norwegian Bokmål: dust — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tulling — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Old Norse: api — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Old Norse: fífl — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Persian: احمق (ahmaq) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Persian: خنگ (xeng) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Persian: ابله (ablah) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Plautdietsch: Noa — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Polish: głupek — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Polish: dureń — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Polish: głupiec — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Polish: tłumok — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Polish: bałwan — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Polish: bęcwał — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Polish: baran — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Polish: idiota — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Polish: pacan — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Polish: patafian — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Polish: matoł — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Polish: półgłówek — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Portuguese: bobo — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Portuguese: burro — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Portuguese: idiota — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Portuguese: imbecil — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Portuguese: tolo — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Portuguese: pamonha — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Romanian: prost — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Russian: балбе́с (balbés) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Russian: болва́н (bolván) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Russian: деби́л (debíl) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Russian: ду́ра (dúra) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Russian: дурачок (duračok) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Russian: дура́к (durák) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Russian: дурале́й (duraléj) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Russian: ду́рень (dúrenʹ) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Russian: глупе́ц (glupéc) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Russian: идио́т (idiót) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Russian: идио́тка (idiótka) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Russian: тупи́ца (tupíca) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Sanskrit: दुर्मति (durmati) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Sardinian: ballaloi — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Sardinian: grìnci — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Scottish Gaelic: amadan — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Scottish Gaelic: òinseach — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Serbo-Croatian: bedak — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Serbo-Croatian: тупан — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Serbo-Croatian: глупак — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Serbo-Croatian: глупан — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Serbo-Croatian: будала — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Serbo-Croatian: лудак — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Serbo-Croatian: бузда — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Serbo-Croatian: абдал — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Serbo-Croatian: glupak — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Serbo-Croatian: glupan — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Serbo-Croatian: budala — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Serbo-Croatian: ludak — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Serbo-Croatian: buzda — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Serbo-Croatian: abdal — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Sicilian: babbu — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Sinhalese: මෝඩයා (mōḍayā) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Sinhalese: මැට්ටා (mæṭṭā) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Slovak: blázon — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Slovak: hlupák — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Slovak: blbec — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Slovene: norec — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Slovene: neumnež — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Slovene: bedak — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Slovene: bizgec — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Slovene: budalo — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Slovene: bukselj — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Somali: doqon — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Spanish: bobo — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Spanish: gilí — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Spanish: imbécil — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Spanish: necio — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Spanish: pendejo — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Spanish: tonto — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Spanish: taba — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Spanish: gil — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Spanish: gila — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Spanish: lonyipietro — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Spanish: lonyi — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Spanish: nescio (disused) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Spanish: besugo — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Spanish: sandio — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Swahili: fala — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Swahili: mjinga — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Swahili: juha — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Swedish: dåre — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Swedish: fåne — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Tajik: аҳмақ (ahmaq) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Tajik: аблаҳ (ablah) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Tamil: முட்டாள் (muṭṭāḷ) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Thai: คนโง่ (kon-ngôo) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Thai: ตุ่น (dtùn) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Thai: ควาย (kwaai) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Tocharian A: āknats — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Tocharian B: aknātsa — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Turkish: aptal — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Turkish: budala — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Turkish: salak — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Turkish: ahmak — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Ottoman Turkish: طوی (toy) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Turkmen: paňkelle — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Turkmen: samsyk — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Ukrainian: ду́рень (dúrenʹ) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Ukrainian: те́лепень (télepenʹ) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Ukrainian: йо́лоп (jólop) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Ukrainian: кеп (kep) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Ukrainian: ду́рник (dúrnyk) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Ukrainian: бевзь (bevzʹ) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Unami: kèpchat — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Urdu: مورکھ (mūrkh) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Uzbek: ahmoq — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Uzbek: tentak — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Vietnamese: thằng ngu — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Vietnamese: kẻ ngốc — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Yiddish: נאַר (nar) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Yiddish: שוטה (shoyte) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Yiddish: טיפּש (tipesh) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Yiddish: גולם (goylem) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Zazaki: gêc (diq) — person with poor judgement or little intelligence
  • Albanian: gaztor — jester
  • Albanian: palaço — jester
  • Albanian: lolo — jester
  • Armenian: խեղկատակ (xeġkatak) — jester
  • Bulgarian: шут (šut) — jester
  • Czech: šašek — jester
  • Czech: klaun — jester
  • Danish: nar — jester
  • Esperanto: bufono — jester
  • Finnish: narri — jester
  • Finnish: hovinarri — jester
  • French: fou — jester
  • French: bouffon — jester
  • Galician: alvardán — jester
  • Galician: arlequín — jester
  • Galician: bufón — jester
  • German: Narr — jester
  • German: Närrin — jester
  • German: Eulenspiegel — jester
  • German: Ulenspiegel — jester
  • Greek: γελωτοποιός (gelotopoiós) — jester
  • Greek: τζουτζές (tzoutzés) — jester
  • Hungarian: udvari bolond — jester
  • Italian: buffone — jester
  • Italian: giullare — jester
  • Italian: pagliaccio — jester
  • Italian: buffone di corte — jester
  • Japanese: 道化師 (dōkeshi) — jester
  • Latin: scurra — jester
  • Lithuanian: juokdarys — jester
  • Macedonian: шут (šut) — jester
  • Norwegian: narr — jester
  • Old Norse: leikari — jester
  • Polish: błazen — jester
  • Portuguese: bobo da corte — jester
  • Portuguese: bobo — jester
  • Romanian: bufon — jester
  • Russian: шут (šut) — jester
  • Russian: скоморо́х (skomoróx) — jester
  • Serbo-Croatian: дворска луда — jester
  • Serbo-Croatian: šutnik — jester
  • Serbo-Croatian: шу̏т — jester
  • Serbo-Croatian: лу̏да — jester
  • Serbo-Croatian: лудак — jester
  • Serbo-Croatian: dvorska luda — jester
  • Serbo-Croatian: šutnik — jester
  • Serbo-Croatian: šȕt — jester
  • Serbo-Croatian: lȕda — jester
  • Serbo-Croatian: ludak — jester
  • Spanish: bufón — jester
  • Swedish: narr — jester
  • Ukrainian: бла́зень (blázenʹ) — jester
  • Yiddish: לץ (lets) — jester
  • Finnish: narri — stock character
  • French: personnage comique — stock character
  • Hebrew: שוטה (shoté) — stock character
  • Polish: błazen — stock character
  • Russian: дура́к (durák) — stock character
  • Swedish: narr — stock character
  • Finnish: -hullu — one who derives pleasure from something specified
  • German: -narr — one who derives pleasure from something specified
  • Hungarian: bolond — one who derives pleasure from something specified
  • Bulgarian: кисел (kisel) — dessert
  • Finnish: hedelmärahka — dessert
  • Finnish: marjarahka — dessert
  • German: Mus — dessert
  • Hungarian: gyümölcskrém — dessert
  • Hungarian: gyümölcsfelfújt — dessert
  • Swedish: kräm — dessert
  • Catalan: boig — tarot card
  • Chinese Cantonese: 愚人 (jyu4 jan4) — tarot card
  • Chinese Mandarin: 愚人 (yúrén) — tarot card
  • Czech: blázen — tarot card
  • Dutch: dwaas — tarot card
  • Finnish: narri — tarot card
  • French: mat — tarot card
  • French: fou — tarot card
  • German: der Narr — tarot card
  • Greek: κάρτα ταρό (kárta taró) — tarot card
  • Hungarian: bolond — tarot card
  • Italian: matto — tarot card
  • Italian: folle — tarot card
  • Korean: 광대 (gwangdae) — tarot card
  • Polish: głupiec — tarot card
  • Portuguese: louco — tarot card
  • Spanish: loco — tarot card
  • Spanish: bufón — tarot card
  • Armenian: հիմարացնել (himaracʻnel) — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Catalan: enganar — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Chinese Mandarin: 愚弄 (yúnòng) — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Chinese Mandarin: 糊弄 (hùnong) — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Czech: obelhávat — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Czech: klamat — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Dutch: bedriegen — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Dutch: in de maling nemen — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Finnish: huijata — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Finnish: narrata — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Finnish: puliveivata — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Finnish: kusettaa — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Finnish: puijata — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • French: duper — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • French: tromper — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • French: rouler — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Galician: cucar — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Galician: enganar — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • German: täuschen — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • German: schwindeln — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • German: betrügen — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • German: verarschen — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • German: vormachen — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Greek: ξεγελάω (xegeláo) — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Hebrew: הֵתֵל (hetél) — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Hebrew: עָבַד עַל ('avád 'al) — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Hungarian: bolondít — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Hungarian: átver — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Hungarian: becsap — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Hungarian: rászed — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Hungarian: a bolondját járatja — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Hungarian: áltat — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Hungarian: lóvá tesz — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Italian: ingannare — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Italian: farsi beffe di s.o. — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Italian: fare lo sciocco — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Italian: scherzare — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Italian: dare a bere — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Japanese: ばかにする (baka ni suru) — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Māori: whakatūaho — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Norwegian: narre — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Norwegian: lure — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Polish: oszukać — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Portuguese: enganar — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Portuguese: lograr — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Romanian: păcăli — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Romanian: prosti — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Russian: дури́ть (durítʹ) — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Russian: обдури́ть (obdurítʹ) — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Russian: дура́чить (duráčitʹ) — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Russian: одура́чить (oduráčitʹ) — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Russian: надува́ть (naduvátʹ) — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Serbo-Croatian: насама́рити — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Serbo-Croatian: nasamáriti — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Slovak: okabátiť — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Spanish: engañar — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Spanish: engrupir — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Spanish: tomar el pelo — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Swedish: lura — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Tamil: ஏமாற்று (ēmāṟṟu) — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Turkish: kandırmak — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Vietnamese: trò đùa — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Yiddish: אָפּנאַרן (opnarn) — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Zazaki: xapeynen — to trick; to make a fool of someone
  • Galician: aparvar — to play the fool, to act silly
  • Hungarian: bolondozik — to play the fool, to act silly
  • Hungarian: hülyéskedik — to play the fool, to act silly
  • Hungarian: viccel — to play the fool, to act silly
  • Hungarian: viccelődik — to play the fool, to act silly
  • Hungarian: idétlenkedik — to play the fool, to act silly
  • Māori: whakaheahea — to play the fool, to act silly
  • Romanian: se prosti — to play the fool, to act silly
  • Russian: дура́читься (duráčitʹsja) — to play the fool, to act silly