Thesaurus / foolish
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Not only that, but a lot of their male family members — brothers, brothers-in-law, and fathers — had volunteered unsolicited opinions about how foolish they had been.
“PEOPLE WANT TO BELIEVE”: HOW LOVE FRAUD BUILDS AN ABSORBING DOCUSERIES AROUND A ROMANTIC CON MANALISSA WILKINSONSEPTEMBER 4, 2020VOXWhen Christians believe and propagate foolish things like QAnon, they make it even harder for others to listen.
EVANGELICALS ARE LOOKING FOR ANSWERS ONLINE. THEY’RE FINDING QANON INSTEAD.ABBY OHLHEISERAUGUST 26, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWI think the coronavirus response, which has been incompetent and foolish, has probably also contributed to their grievances.
WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT BELARUSTRACY MORANAUGUST 17, 2020OZYIn Lukashenko’s Belarus, independent political leaders are seen as brave yet reckless, even foolish, for voluntarily jumping into the spotlight and risking his wrath.
COULD SHE UPSET BELARUS’ DICTATOR?PALLABI MUNSIAUGUST 5, 2020OZYBy the end of the 1500s, silly was used for “lacking good sense, foolish, irrational, ridiculous.”
IS “SILLY” A POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE WORD?CANDICE BRADLEYJULY 24, 2020EVERYTHING AFTER ZIt's an idle question, I know; wise men and musty philosophers say that regrets are foolish.
RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIRFor others life is but a foolish leisure with mock activities and mimic avocations to mask its uselessness.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKMore foolish, more culpable weakness was never shown than in thus yielding to these schemes.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOODThey that sit on mount Seir, and the Philistines, and the foolish people that dwell in Sichem.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSFeeling sixteen and very foolish, she sank to the edge of a chair and muttered something about the charm of the room.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONWORDS RELATED TO FOOLISH
- brainless
- dazed
- deficient
- dense
- dim
- doltish
- dopey
- dull
- dumb
- dummy
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- futile
- gullible
- half-baked
- half-witted
- idiotic
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- naive
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- brainless
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- dopey
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- dummy
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- half-witted
- hebetudinous
- idiotic
- ill-advised
- imbecilic
- inane
- indiscreet
- insensate
- irrelevant
- laughable
- loser
- ludicrous
- meaningless
- mindless
- moronic
- naive
- nonsensical
- obtuse
- out to lunch
- pointless
- puerile
- rash
- senseless
- shortsighted
- simple
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- stupefied
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- bovine
- careless
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- inadvertent
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- all wet
- arbitrary
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- heedless
- impulsive
- inadvertent
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- indelicate
- insensitive
- instinctive
- mechanical
- napping
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- outrageous
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- tactless
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- uncaring
- unconscious
- undiplomatic
- unheeding
- unintended
- unmeant
- unmindful
- unpremeditated
- unreasoning
- untactful
- unwise
- vacant
- witless
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.