foolish

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• /ˈfuː.lɪʃ/
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From Middle English folisch; equivalent to fool + -ish.

195 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: budalla — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Arabic: أَحْمَق (ʔaḥmaq) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Arabic: غَبِيّ (ḡabiyy) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Arabic: سَفِيهٌ (safīhun) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Arabic: مُغَفَّل (muḡaffal) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Armenian: հիմար (himar) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Armenian: տխմար (txmar) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Armenian: ապուշ (apuš) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Asturian: neciu — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Asturian: ñeciu — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Azerbaijani: ağılsız — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Azerbaijani: axmaq — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Belarusian: дурны́ (durný) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Bengali: মূর্খ (murkho) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Breton: sod — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Bulgarian: неразу́мен (nerazúmen) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Bulgarian: глу́пав (glúpav) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Burmese: မိုက်မဲ (muikmai:) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Catalan: ximple — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Cherokee: ᎤᎸᏓᎴᏍᎩ (ulvdalesgi) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Chinese Cantonese: 傻 (so4) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Chinese Cantonese: 笨 (ban6) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Chinese Mandarin: 笨 (bèn) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Chinese Mandarin: 傻 (shǎ) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Chinese Mandarin: 蠢 (chǔn) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Chinese Mandarin: 愚蠢的 (yúchǔn de) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Chuukese: tiparoch — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Czech: pošetilý — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Czech: hloupý — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Danish: tåbelig — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Danish: dum — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Dutch: onverstandig — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Dutch: dom — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Esperanto: malsaĝa — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Esperanto: stulta — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Estonian: rumal — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Estonian: narr — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Estonian: tobe — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Estonian: loll — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Faroese: býttur — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Faroese: býttisligur — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Faroese: óvitskutur — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Faroese: fávitskutur — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Finnish: houkkamainen — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• French: sot — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• French: stupide — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• French: bête — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• French: idiot — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Galician: necio — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Georgian: სულელი (suleli) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• German: dumm — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• German: närrisch — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• German: töricht — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Gothic: 𐌳𐍅𐌰𐌻𐍃 (dwals) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐍆𐍂𐍉𐌸𐍃 (unfrōþs) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Greek: ανόητος (anóitos) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Ancient Greek: ἄφρων (áphrōn) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Hebrew: מטופש (metupásh) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Hebrew: טיפשי (tipshí) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Hindi: मूर्ख (mūrkh) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Hungarian: buta — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Icelandic: heimskur — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Ido: dessaja — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Irish: leibideach — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Irish: díchéillí — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Irish: aimhghlic — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Italian: babbeo — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Italian: sciocco — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Japanese: 愚かな (oroka na) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Japanese: 馬鹿げた (bakageta) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Japanese: 馬鹿な (baka na) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Kabuverdianu: tolobásku — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Kapampangan: bolang — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Kapampangan: borbolen — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Khmer: ភ្លើ (pləə) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Korean: 어리석다 (eoriseokda) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Korean: 둔하다 (dunhada) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Ladino: bovo — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Lao: ງ່າວ (ngāo) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Lao: ສວົງ (sng) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Latin: fatuus — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Latin: stultus — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Latin: mōrus — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Latin: ineptus — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Latvian: muļķīgs — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Latvian: dumjš — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Latvian: neprātīgs — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Lithuanian: kvailas — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Lithuanian: neprotingas — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Luxembourgish: domm — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Luxembourgish: topeg — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Macedonian: глупав (glupav) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Manx: ommidjagh — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Manx: blebbinagh — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Manx: neuhushtagh — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Manx: meecheeallagh — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Manx: sou-cheayllagh — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Manx: bolvaneagh — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Māori: manuware — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Māori: nenekara — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Māori: rūrūwai — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Māori: heahea — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Māori: wawau — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Māori: hukehuke — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Norwegian Bokmål: tåpelig — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Norwegian Bokmål: dum — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Oromo: gowwaa — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Persian: احمق (ahmaq) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Persian: ببو (babu) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Polish: niemądry — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Polish: głupi — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Portuguese: idiota — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Portuguese: tolo — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Romanian: prost — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Romanian: tont — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Romanian: nerod — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Russian: глу́пый (glúpyj) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Russian: дура́цкий (duráckij) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Russian: дурно́й (durnój) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Russian: идио́тский (idiótskij) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Campidanese Sardinian: bovu — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Campidanese Sardinian: bacciloi — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Campidanese Sardinian: lolloi — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Campidanese Sardinian: managu — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Campidanese Sardinian: mengòsu — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Sardinian: dòndoro — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Sardinian: ménzu — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Sardinian: menzosu — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Sardinian: bovu — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Scottish Gaelic: amaideach — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Scottish Gaelic: faoin — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Serbo-Croatian: будаласт — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Serbo-Croatian: глуп — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Serbo-Croatian: budalast — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Serbo-Croatian: glup — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Sidamo: gowwa — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Slovak: pochabý — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Slovak: hlúpy — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Slovene: neumen — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Slovene: butast — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Slovene: trapast — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Spanish: tonto — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Spanish: necio — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Spanish: imprudente — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Spanish: taba — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Spanish: lonyipietro — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Spanish: lonyi — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Spanish: nescio — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Spanish: majadero — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Spanish: insensato — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Spanish: otario — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Spanish: estulto — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Spanish: sandio — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Swedish: dåraktig — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Swedish: dum — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Tày: bả — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Tày: bả mướng — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Tày: phoóc — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Telugu: మూర్ఖ (mūrkha) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Telugu: పిచ్చి (picci) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Thai: โง่ (ngôo) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Tocharian A: āknats — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Tocharian B: aknātsa — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Turkish: ahmak — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Turkish: akılsız — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Turkish: aptalca — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Turkish: enayice — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Turkish: sersem — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Turkish: angut — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Ottoman Turkish: خفیف (hafif) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Ukrainian: дурни́й (durnýj) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Unami: kpëche — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Urdu: مورکھ (mūrkh) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Vietnamese: dại dột — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Volapük: fopik — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Yiddish: נאַריש (narish) — lacking good sense or judgement; unwise
• Bulgarian: глупав (glupav) — resembling or characteristic of a fool
• German: dumm — resembling or characteristic of a fool
• German: töricht — resembling or characteristic of a fool
• German: närrisch — resembling or characteristic of a fool
• Hebrew: מטופש (metupásh) — resembling or characteristic of a fool
• Hebrew: טיפשי (tipshí) — resembling or characteristic of a fool
• Latvian: muļķīgs — resembling or characteristic of a fool
• Latvian: dumjš — resembling or characteristic of a fool
• Latvian: neprātīgs — resembling or characteristic of a fool
• Manx: ommidjagh — resembling or characteristic of a fool
• Manx: blebbinagh — resembling or characteristic of a fool
• Manx: meecheeallagh — resembling or characteristic of a fool
• Manx: neuhushtagh — resembling or characteristic of a fool
• Manx: sou-cheayllagh — resembling or characteristic of a fool
• Manx: bolvaneagh — resembling or characteristic of a fool
• Scottish Gaelic: amaideach — resembling or characteristic of a fool
• Spanish: tonto — resembling or characteristic of a fool
• Unami: kpëche — resembling or characteristic of a fool
• Unami: kpëcheinakwsi — resembling or characteristic of a fool