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
Standard Lemma guide
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
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Foolish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
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.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory
Synonyms: ignoramus, naif, simpleton, simp, goofus, doofus, dimwit, idiot, imbecile, stultus, buffoon, cuckoo, moron, lunatic, maniac
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To trick; to deceive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
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.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Synonyms: chump, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: victim, dupe
noun
a person who lacks good judgment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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
noun
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.
Synonyms: jester, motley fool
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: clown, buffoon, goof, goofball, merry andrew
verb
indulge in horseplay
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: horse around, arse around, fool around
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: joke, jest, play
verb
fool or hoax
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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
verb
spend frivolously and unwisely
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool away
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: consume, squander, waste, ware
verb
make a fool or dupe of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: gull, befool
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
History
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
487 source translations are retained for this English entry.