| foolish | | |
| adj. | 1. foolish | devoid of good sense or judgment.; "foolish remarks"; "a foolish decision" |
| ~ inadvisable, unadvisable | not prudent or wise; not recommended.; "running on the ice is inadvisable" |
| ~ ill-advised, unadvised | without careful prior deliberation or counsel.; "ill-advised efforts"; "it would be ill-advised to accept the offer"; "took the unadvised measure of going public with the accusations" |
| ~ impolitic | not politic.; "an impolitic approach to a sensitive issue" |
| ~ imprudent | not prudent or wise.; "very imprudent of her mother to encourage her in such silly romantic ideas"; "would be imprudent for a noneconomist to talk about the details of economic policy" |
| ~ derisory, laughable, nonsensical, preposterous, absurd, cockeyed, idiotic, ludicrous, ridiculous | incongruous;inviting ridicule.; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous" |
| ~ asinine, fatuous, inane, vacuous, mindless | devoid of intelligence. |
| ~ cockamamie, cockamamy, goofy, sappy, silly, wacky, whacky, zany | ludicrous, foolish.; "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books" |
| ~ fond | absurd or silly because unlikely.; "fond hopes of becoming President"; "fond fancies" |
| ~ harebrained, insane, mad | very foolish.; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains" |
| ~ ill-conceived, misguided | poorly conceived or thought out.; "an ill-conceived plan to take over the company" |
| ~ rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained, scatty | lacking sense or discretion.; "his rattlebrained crackpot ideas"; "how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for" |
| ~ unwise | showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom.; "an unwise investor is soon impoverished" |
| adj. | 2. anserine, dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky | having or revealing stupidity.; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ stupid | lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity. |
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