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147 words match “FOOLISH”

FEATHER-HEADED a.

Giddy; frivolous; foolish. [Colloq.] G. Eliot.

han four, and less than six; five units or objects. Five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Matt. xxv. 2.

Foolishly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

FOLLY n. 3 definitions

The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.

FOND a. 2 definitions

Foolish; silly; simple; weak. [Archaic] Grant I may never prove so fond To trust man on his oath or bond. Shak.

A person or thing fondled or caressed; one treated with foolish or doting affection. Fondlings are in danger to be made fools. L'Estrange.

Foolishly. [Archaic] Verstegan (1673). Make him speak fondly like a frantic man. Shak.

FONDNESS n. 2 definitions

The quality or state of being fond; foolishness. [Obs.] Fondness it were for any, being free, To covet fetters, though they golden be. Spenser.

Foolishly; fondly. [Obs.] Spenser.

FOOL n. 3 definitions

(see under Limbo) popularly believed to be the region of vanity and nonsense. Hence, any foolish pleasure or condition of vain self-satistaction. -- Fool's parsley (Bot.), an annual umbelliferous plant (Æthusa Cynapium) resembling parsley, but nauseous and poisonous. -- To make a fool of, to render ridiculous; to ou…

Foolishly hasty. [R.]

Foolishly liberal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

FOOL-LARGESSE n.

Foolish expenditure; waste. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An act of folly or weakness; a foolish practice; something absurd or nonsensical. That Pythagoras, Plato, or Orpheus, believed in any of these fooleries, it can not be suspected. Sir W. Raleigh.

FOOLHARDINESS n.

Courage without sense or judgment; foolish rashness; recklessness. Dryden.

Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell.

To act in a trifling or foolish manner; to act frivolously. The fools that are fribbling round about you. Thackeray.

To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated. [Colloq.] I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders. Steele.

Foolish and awkward; clumsy; clownish; as, gawky behavior. -- n. A fellow who is awkward from being overgrown, or from stupidity, a gawk.

erized by inconstancy; unstable; changeable; fickle; wild; thoughtless; heedless. "Giddy, foolish hours." Rowe. "Giddy chance." Dryden. Young heads are giddy and young hearts are warm. Cowper.