'Fool' definitions:
Definition of 'fool'
(from WordNet)
noun
noun
A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of [syn: chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug]
noun
A professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages [syn: jester, fool, motley fool]
verb
verb
Spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance" [syn: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away]
verb
Fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across]
verb
Indulge in horseplay; "Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!"; "The bored children were fooling about" [syn: horse around, arse around, fool around, fool]
Definition of 'Fool'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Fool'
From: GCIDE
- Fool \Fool\, v. t.
- 1. To infatuate; to make foolish. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- For, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money. [1913 Webster]
- You are fooled, discarded, and shook off By him for whom these shames ye underwent. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To fool away, to get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fool'
From: GCIDE
- Fool \Fool\, n. [Cf. F. fouler to tread, crush. Cf. 1st Foil.] A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fool'
From: GCIDE
- Fool \Fool\, n. [OE. fol, n. & adj., F. fol, fou, foolish, mad; a fool, prob. fr. L. follis a bellows, wind bag, an inflated ball; perh. akin to E. bellows. Cf. Folly, Follicle.]
- 1. One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt. [1913 Webster]
- Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. --Franklin. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Script.) One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person. [1913 Webster]
- The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. --Ps. xiv. 1. [1913 Webster]
- 4. One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments. [1913 Webster]
- Can they think me . . . their fool or jester? --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- April fool, Court fool, etc. See under April, Court, etc.
- Fool's cap, a cap or hood to which bells were usually attached, formerly worn by professional jesters.
- Fool's errand, an unreasonable, silly, profitless adventure or undertaking.
- Fool's gold, iron or copper pyrites, resembling gold in color.
- Fool's paradise, a name applied to a limbo (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 (Aethusa Cynapium) resembling parsley, but nauseous and poisonous.
- To make a fool of, to render ridiculous; to outwit; to shame. [Colloq.]
- To play the fool, to act foolishly; to act the buffoon; to act a foolish part. "I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly." --1 Sam. xxvi. 21. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fool'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ament,
- apish,
- asinine,
- ass,
- babe,
- bamboozle,
- banter,
- batty,
- be foolish,
- be stupid,
- befool,
- befooled,
- beguiled,
- besotted,
- birdbrain,
- blockhead,
- bluff,
- bonehead,
- boob,
- booby,
- brainless,
- buffo,
- buffoon,
- buffoonish,
- busybody,
- butt,
- butt in,
- byword,
- byword of reproach,
- cavort,
- cheat,
- chouse,
- chucklehead,
- chump,
- cinch,
- clod,
- clodpate,
- clodpoll,
- clown,
- clown around,
- cockeyed,
- Columbine,
- come-on,
- comedian,
- comedienne,
- comic,
- con,
- coquet,
- cozen,
- crazy,
- credulous,
- credulous person,
- cretin,
- cull,
- dabble,
- dabbler,
- daffy,
- daft,
- dally,
- dawdle,
- dazed,
- deceive,
- defraud,
- delude,
- derision,
- dilettante,
- dimwit,
- dizzy,
- dolt,
- donkey,
- doodle,
- dope,
- doting,
- droll,
- dumb,
- dumbbell,
- dummy,
- dunce,
- dupe,
- easy mark,
- easy pickings,
- entertainer,
- fair game,
- fake,
- fake out,
- fall guy,
- farceur,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- featherbrain,
- featherhead,
- feign,
- fiddle,
- fiddle with,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fidget with,
- figure of fun,
- finger with,
- fish,
- flaky,
- fleece,
- flirt,
- fond,
- fool around,
- fool with,
- foolheaded,
- foolish,
- footle,
- fribble,
- frivol,
- frolic,
- fuddled,
- futile,
- gaga,
- gambol,
- game,
- gazingstock,
- get funny,
- git,
- go haywire,
- goat,
- gobe-mouches,
- goofy,
- goon,
- goose,
- greener,
- greenhorn,
- greeny,
- gudgeon,
- gull,
- gulled,
- half-wit,
- Hanswurst,
- Harlequin,
- harlequin,
- hoax,
- hoodwink,
- horn in,
- horse around,
- humbug,
- idiot,
- idiotic,
- idle,
- ignoramus,
- illiterate,
- illiterati,
- imbecile,
- inane,
- inept,
- infatuated,
- innocent,
- insane,
- instrument,
- interfere,
- interlope,
- intermeddle,
- invite ridicule,
- jack-pudding,
- jackass,
- jay,
- jerk,
- jerk off,
- jest,
- jester,
- jestingstock,
- joke,
- joker,
- jokester,
- josh,
- kid,
- kid around,
- know-nothing,
- kooky,
- laughingstock,
- lead on,
- leadpipe cinch,
- loiter,
- loon,
- loony,
- loser,
- lowbrow,
- mad,
- madman,
- make,
- make believe,
- mark,
- maudlin,
- meddle with,
- merry-andrew,
- mess around,
- middlebrow,
- mislead,
- mockery,
- monkey,
- monkey around,
- monkey with,
- mooncalf,
- moron,
- moronic,
- motley,
- motley fool,
- mug,
- natural,
- nincompoop,
- ninny,
- ninnyhammer,
- nit,
- nitwit,
- no scholar,
- numskull,
- nutty,
- oaf,
- Pantalone,
- Pantaloon,
- patsy,
- pickle-herring,
- piddle,
- pigeon,
- pinhead,
- play,
- play around,
- play the buffoon,
- play the fool,
- play with,
- plaything,
- pluck,
- Polichinelle,
- poop,
- potter,
- pretend,
- prize sap,
- puddinghead,
- Pulcinella,
- Punch,
- Punchinello,
- pushover,
- put one on,
- putter,
- rattlebrain,
- retard,
- romp,
- sap,
- saphead,
- sappy,
- Scaramouch,
- scatterbrain,
- schlemiel,
- schmuck,
- screwy,
- senseless,
- sentimental,
- silly,
- simple,
- simpleton,
- sitting duck,
- smatter,
- snow,
- softhead,
- spoof,
- stock,
- stooge,
- string along,
- stupid,
- sucker,
- swindle,
- take in,
- tamper,
- tamper with,
- target,
- tease,
- tenderfoot,
- thoughtless,
- tinker,
- tomfool,
- tool,
- toy,
- toy with,
- trick,
- trifle,
- trifle with,
- trusting soul,
- twiddle,
- twist,
- twit,
- unintelligentsia,
- victim,
- wacky,
- wanton,
- wet,
- witless,
- zany
Words containing 'Fool'
- Fooled,
- Fooling,
- April fool,
- Court fool,
- Fool's cap,
- Fool's errand,
- Fool's gold,
- Fool's paradise,
- Fool's parsley,
- Fooled around,
- Fooling around,
- Gooseberry fool,
- To fool away,
- To make a fool of,
- To play the fool,
- all fools' day,
- april fools',
- fool around,
- fool around with,
- fool away,
- fool duck,
- fool notion,
- fool's coat,
- fool's huckleberry,
- motley fool,
- Fool-born,
- Fool-happy,
- Fool-hasty,
- Fool-large,
- Fool-largesse,
- To beg one for a fool,
- april fools' day,
- blooming-fool begonia