foolish

English

Etymology

From Middle English folisch; equivalent to fool +‎ -ish.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfuː.lɪʃ/
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Adjective

foolish (comparative foolisher or more foolish, superlative foolishest or most foolish)

(of a person, an action, etc.) Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
- 2017 May 13, Barney Ronay, “Antonio Conte’s brilliance has turned Chelsea’s pop-up team into champions”, in the Guardian‎:
  Next season will, as ever, be a different matter, another problem for Conte to solve as he looks to extend his personal record of four straight league titles in club football across England and Italy. Given his hunger for more – more time, more detail, more work – only the brave or the foolish would bet against him.
- 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828:
  As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
Resembling or characteristic of a fool.
- Aeschylus
  It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

Synonyms

Antonyms

wise

Derived terms

Translations

lacking good sense or judgement; unwise

Albanian: budalla (sq)
Arabic: أَحْمَق‎ (ʾaḥmaq), غَبِيّ‎ (ḡabiyy)
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: հիմար (hy) (himar), տխմար (hy) (txmar), ապուշ (hy) (apuš)
Asturian: neciu (ast), ñeciu (ast)
Azerbaijani: ağılsız (az), axmaq (az)
Belarusian: дурны́ (durný)
Bengali: মূর্খ (murkhô)
Breton: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: неразу́мен (bg) (nerazúmen), глу́пав (bg) (glúpav)
Burmese: မိုက်မဲ (my) (muikmai:)
Catalan: ximple (ca)
Cherokee: ᎤᎸᏓᎴᏍᎩ (ulvdalesgi)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 傻 (so⁴), 笨 (ban⁶)

Mandarin: 笨 (zh) (bèn), 傻 (zh) (shǎ), 蠢 (zh) (chǔn), 愚蠢的 (zh) (yúchǔn de)
Chuukese: tiparoch
Czech: pošetilý (cs) m, hloupý (cs) m
Danish: tåbelig, dum (da)
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: onverstandig (nl), dom (nl)
Esperanto: malsaĝa, stulta (eo)
Estonian: rumal, narr
Finnish: houkkamainen (fi)
French: sot (fr), stupide (fr), bête (fr), idiot (fr)
Galician: necio (gl)
Georgian: სულელი (suleli)
German: dumm (de), närrisch (de), töricht (de)
Greek: ανόητος (el) (anóitos)
Ancient: ἄφρων (áphrōn)
Hebrew: מטופש‎ m (metupásh), טיפשי‎ m (tipshí)
Hindi: मूर्ख (hi) (mūrkh)
Icelandic: heimskur (is)
Ido: dessaja (io)
Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
Interlingue: folli, stupid
Irish: leibideach, díchéillí, aimhghlic
Italian: babbeo (it)
Japanese: 愚かな (ja) (おろかな, oroka na), 馬鹿げた (ばかげた, bakageta), 馬鹿な (ja) (ばかな, baka na)
Kabuverdianu: tolobásku
Khmer: ភ្លើ (km) (pləə)
Korean: 어리석다 (ko) (eoriseokda), 둔하다 (ko) (dunhada)
Kurdish: please add this translation if you can

Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latin: fatuus, stultus, mōrus (la), ineptus
Latvian: muļķīgs, dumjš, neprātīgs
Lithuanian: kvailas, neprotingas
Luxembourgish: domm, topeg
Macedonian: глупав (glupav)
Manx: ommidjagh, blebbinagh, neuhushtagh, meecheeallagh, sou-cheayllagh, bolvaneagh
Maori: manuware, nenekara, rūrūwai, heahea, wawau
Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tåpelig (no), dum (no)
Novial: please add this translation if you can
Pashto: please add this translation if you can
Persian: احمق‎ (fa) (ahmaq), ببو‎ (fa) (babu)
Polish: niemądry (pl), głupi (pl)
Portuguese: idiota (pt), tolo (pt)
Romanian: prost (ro), tont (ro), nerod (ro)
Russian: глу́пый (ru) (glúpyj), дура́цкий (ru) (duráckij), дурно́й (ru) (durnój), идио́тский (ru) (idiótskij)
Sardinian:
Campidanese: bovu, bacciloi, lolloi, managu, mengòsu

Logudorese: dòndoro, ménzu, menzosu, bovu
Scots: please add this translation if you can
Scottish Gaelic: amaideach, faoin
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: будаласт, глуп

Roman: budalast (sh), glup (sh)
Slovak: pochabý, hlúpy (sk)
Slovene: neumen (sl), butast, trapast
Somali: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: tonto (es), necio (es), imprudente (es)
Swedish: dåraktig (sv), dum (sv)
Tamil: please add this translation if you can
Telugu: మూర్ఖ (mūrkha), పిచ్చి (te) (picci)
Thai: โง่ (th) (ngôo)
Tocharian A: āknats
Tocharian B: aknātsa
Turkish: ahmak (tr), akılsız (tr), aptalca (tr), enayice (tr), sersem (tr), angut (tr)
Ukrainian: дурни́й (durnýj)
Urdu: مورکھ‎ (mūrkh)
Vietnamese: dại dột (vi)
Volapük: fopik (vo)
Walloon: please add this translation if you can
Yiddish: נאַריש‎ (narish)

resembling or characteristic of a fool

Bulgarian: глупав (bg) m (glupav)
German: dumm (de), töricht (de) (literally närrisch; Narr = fool)
Hebrew: מטופש‎ m (metupásh), טיפשי‎ m (tipshí)
Latvian: muļķīgs, dumjš, neprātīgs

Manx: ommidjagh, blebbinagh, meecheeallagh, neuhushtagh, sou-cheayllagh, bolvaneagh
Scottish Gaelic: amaideach
Spanish: tonto (es)

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