Thesaurus:foolish
English
Adjective
Synonyms
- asinine
- balmy (US, informal)
- barmy (Britain, Ireland, informal)
- bedaft
- loony
- daft
- derpy (slang)
- dim-headed
- dim-witted
- dopey
- dull-headed
- dull-witted
- dumb
- duncical
- fatuous
- fuzzy-headed
- fuzzy-minded
- gauvison (UK dialect)
- goofy
- idiotic
- idle (obsolete)
- insipient
- mookish
- naive [⇒ thesaurus]
- silly
- simple (euphemistic)
- slight (obsolete)
- slow-witted
- softheaded
- soft in the head
- sottish (dated)
- stupid [⇒ thesaurus]
- thick (not of action)
- unsage
- unwise
- wool-headed
- woolly-headed
- woolly-minded
Colloquialisms or slang
Similes
- thick as a brick (not of action)
- daft as a brush
Technical terms misused
Antonyms
Hyponyms
Hypernyms
See also
Further reading
- Wiktionary:Roget Thesaurus Classification
- Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
- Division I. Formation of Ideas
- Section V. Results Of Reasoning
- 499. Imbecility, Folly - “Imbecility” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- Section V. Results Of Reasoning
- Division I. Formation of Ideas
- Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties
- “foolish” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.