fool

Plural: fools

Noun

• a person who lacks good judgment
• a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
• a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
• A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
• A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
• A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.
• Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
• Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
• An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.
• A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
• A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.

Verb

Verb Forms: fooled, fooling, fools

• To deceive or trick someone.
• make a fool or dupe of
• spend frivolously and unwisely
• fool or hoax
  • "You can't fool me!"
• indulge in horseplay
  • "The bored children were fooling about"
• To trick; to deceive.
• To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly.
• To make a fool of; to make act the fool.

Adj

• Foolish.

Examples

• The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.
• You can try to FOOL your Scrabble opponent, but the dictionary never lies.
• You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.

Synonyms

arse around, befool, chump, cod, dissipate, dupe, fall guy, fool around, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, gull, horse around, jester, mark, motley fool, mug, muggins, patsy, put on, put one across, put one over, sap, saphead, shoot, slang, soft touch, sucker, take in, tomfool, Charlie, Homer Simpson, alcatote, arsehole, asshat, asshole, bayard, berk, birdbrain, blither, bobchin, bonehead, bozo, brickhead, buffoon, chowderhead, chucklehead, clart, clown, der-brain, dill pickle, dim bulb, dingleberry, dipshit, dipstick, dirtbrain, div, divvo, divvy, dolt, donk, doodle, doofus, dope, dork, dote, dotterel, dullard, dumb fuck, dumbass, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, fan, fathead, fenderhead, fiddle, fuckwit, fuzznut, geck, gig, gink, goat, goober, gooseberry, gowk, gubbins, gump, ha'p'orth, ignoramus, imbecile, jamoke, jerk, jerkoff, joker, jolterhead, jolthead, juggins, jughead, knucklehead, lamebrain, mameluke (US (Italian-American), maroon, meathead, mong, moron, mushhead, nimrod, nincompoop, nit, nitwit, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, numps, numpty, numskull, nupson, oaf, pillock, pinhead, plonker, prat, retard, schmo, schmuck, shit for brains, shithead, shitwit, slang), snapperhead, softhead, sot, stupid, thickhead, tonto, tool, tosser, tosspot, twat, twerp, twit, wally, wantwit, wazzock, yampy

Antonyms

sage

Related Words

dimwit, foolish, glaik, halfwit, idiot, insane, jester, retarded

Anagrams of fool