1 (of actions or behaviour) not showing good sense or judgement
SYNSILLY:
She's just a vain, foolish woman. * I was foolish enough to believe what Jeff told me. * The accident was my fault-it would be foolish to pretend otherwise. * How could she have been so foolish as to fall in love with him? * a foolish idea / dream / mistake * It was a very foolish thing to do.
2 [notusuallybeforenoun] made to feel or look silly and embarrassed:
I felt foolish and a failure. * He's afraid of looking foolish in front of his friends.
foolishly adverb:
We foolishly thought that everyone would speak English. * Foolishly, I allowed myself to be persuaded to enter the contest.
foolishness noun [U]:
Jenny had to laugh at her own foolishness.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for foolish is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is foolish a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, foolish is tagged as adjective.
Does foolish appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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