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fool

noun

1 fool

A person who lacks good judgment.

synonyms: muggins, sap, saphead, tomfool.

Roget 699: unskillfulness etc. adj.; want of skill etc. 698; incompetence, incompentency; inability, infelicity, indexterity, inexperience; disqualification, unproficiency; ... show more

Roget 501: fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer; chowderhead, chucklehead; dolt, ... show more

Roget 493: ignoramus, dunce; wooden spoon; no scholar.    [insulting terms for ignorant person:] (imbecility) 499 (folly) 501 moron, imbecile, idiot; fool, ... show more

Roget 450a: absence of intellect, want of intellect etc. 450; imbecility etc. 499.    brutality, brute force.    instinct, brute instinct, stimulus-response loop, conditioned response, instinctive reaction, ... show more

Dutch: achterlijke, debiel, druif, dwaas, gek, halvezool, idioot, imbeciel, kwibus, lijp ... show more
Polish: głup, głupiec, głupol, głuptak

2 fool

A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of.

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

Roget 547: dupe, gull, gudgeon, gobemouche, cull [Slang], cully, victim, pigeon, April fool; jay [Slang], sucker [Slang]; laughingstock etc. 857; ... show more

Dutch: sul, dwaas, meeuw, achterlijke, idioot, sukkel, goedzak, lobbes

3 fool

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

synonyms: jester, motley fool.

Roget 844: humorist, wag, wit, reparteeist, epigrammatist, punster; bel esprit, life of the party; wit-snapper, wit-cracker, wit-worm; joker, jester, Joe Miller, ... show more

Dutch: nar
Polish: błazen, trefniś, wesołek

verb

1 fool

Make a fool or dupe of.

synonyms: befool, gull.

Roget 929: hold in disrespect etc. (despise) 930; misprize, disregard, slight, trifle with, set at naught, pass by, push aside, overlook, turn one's back upon, laugh in one's sleeve; ... show more

2 fool

Spend frivolously and unwisely.

synonyms: dissipate, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot.

Dutch: verprutsen

3 fool

Fool or hoax:
— You can't fool me!.

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

Roget 545: deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, ... show more

Dutch: bedotten, beetnemen, foppen, inlappen

4 fool

Indulge in horseplay:
— The bored children were fooling about.

synonyms: arse around, fool around, horse around.


Moby thesaurus: Columbine, Hanswurst, Harlequin, Pantalone, Pantaloon, Polichinelle, Pulcinella, Punch, Punchinello, Scaramouch, ament, apish, asinine, ass, babe, bamboozle, banter, batty, be foolish, be stupid ... show more.

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