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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
foolish
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ This pessimistic extreme is as foolish as its optimistic predecessor.
▪ And yet he does things as foolish as that.
▪ To eat chalk is as foolish as to try to write on a blackboard with cheese!
▪ She felt a brief surge of annoyance, but then dismissed it as foolish.
how
How many people prayed at the stake? How foolish I look, kneeling like this..
▪ I think of how foolish I have been to bring her this present.
▪ Privilege? How foolish of me!
▪ No, of course he didn't - how foolish could she get?
so
▪ Not so foolish as to put your head in a noose.
▪ He smiled that ironic smile of his that always made me feel so foolish.
▪ How could she have been so thoughtless, so foolish, done something so unarguably dangerous?
▪ Trying to claim relationship with the rich d'Urbervilles seemed so foolish and shameful to her.
▪ No girl would be so foolish, especially as it is so long ago, and not your fault at all.
▪ Surely Lorton wouldn't be so foolish as to kill Newley?
▪ Why, it's so foolish.
▪ That his distress was so foolish, made it all the more poignant.
very
▪ Macbeth, although shown to be very brave and soldier-like, is also very foolish.
▪ It's very foolish of you, you know.
▪ He afterwards thought this refusal very foolish and regretted that he did not go.
▪ That was very foolish, because relationships aren't everything.
■ NOUN
man
▪ I would have been a foolish man to do otherwise.
▪ And I, foolish man, felt so rebuffed that I hardly ever tried to go through the barriers.
▪ The foolish man built his house on sand.
thing
▪ They write off Ireland as a spent force, which in my experience is a foolish thing to do.
▪ This is an understandable thing to do... and can be a wise or foolish thing to do.
▪ Who would do such a foolish thing?
▪ All that money that might get wasted on foolish things like helping the poor.
▪ But, foolish thing that I am, this poor Miss Sally Godfrey runs in my head!
▪ These foolish things, she thought, remind me of you. ... And it was true.
▪ True, she opened herself up to the press and said some foolish things in her grief.
things
▪ These foolish things, she thought, remind me of you. ... And it was true.
▪ All that money that might get wasted on foolish things like helping the poor.
▪ True, she opened herself up to the press and said some foolish things in her grief.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a foolish decision
▪ I think the board of directors made a foolish choice that it will later regret.
▪ It was a warning she would have been foolish to ignore.
▪ Jan realised later that her behaviour had been very foolish.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At times his language turned crude and made him look foolish.
▪ Besides being heart-broken she felt foolish and a failure.
▪ It is foolish to think, therefore, that any social, cultural affair or any language has remained the same.
▪ Maybe her request sounded foolish, but the prospect of facing Robert after everything that had happened between them was disturbing.
▪ The current tuberculosis epidemic, which threatens the entire population with antibiotic-resistant strains, is the result of one such foolish cutback.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foolish

Foolish \Fool"ish\, a.

  1. Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise.

    I am a very foolish fond old man.
    --Shak.

  2. Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion; as, a foolish act.

  3. Absurd; ridiculous; despicable; contemptible.

    A foolish figure he must make.
    --Prior.

    Syn: Absurd; shallow; shallow-brained; brainless; simple; irrational; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet; incautious; silly; ridiculous; vain; trifling; contemptible. See Absurd.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
foolish

early 14c., from fool (n.1) + -ish. Older adjectives in Middle English were fool (c.1200); folly (c.1300). Old English words for this were dysig, stunt, dol. Related: Foolishly; foolishness.\n\n

Wiktionary
foolish

a. 1 (label en of a person, an action, etc.) Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise. 2 Resembling or characteristic of a fool.

WordNet
foolish
  1. adj. devoid of good sense or judgment; "foolish remarks"; "a foolish decision" [ant: wise]

  2. having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books" [syn: anserine, dopy, dopey, goosey, goosy, gooselike]

Wikipedia
Foolish

Foolish may refer to:

  • the derived term Foolishness
  • "Foolish" (Ashanti song)
  • "Foolish" (Shawty Lo song)
  • "Foolish", a song by Tyler James (English musician)
  • Foolish (album), an album by Superchunk
  • Foolish (film), a 1999 film
  • Foolish (soundtrack), soundtrack to the 1999 film
  • Foolish Lake, a lake in California
Foolish (Ashanti song)

"Foolish" is the debut single by American R&B singer Ashanti from her debut album. It was written by Ashanti, 7 Aurelius, Mark DeBarge and producer Irv Gotti. It uses a sample of DeBarge's " Stay with Me" and features elements from the remix of " One More Chance " by The Notorious B.I.G. and " M.V.P" by Big L.

The song was released as the album's lead single on January 29, 2002. It spent ten weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and Billboard Hot R&B Songs chart. The song became Ashanti's second number one and third top ten on both charts. The song was in the top ten in United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, Canada, Germany and Japan.

In 2009, it was named the 19th most successful song of the 2000s on the Billboard Hot 100 Songs of the Decade. As of June 2012, it is the second best selling physical single of the 21st century, having sold over 8.4 million copies to date.

Foolish (album)

Foolish is Superchunk's fourth studio album. It was recorded November 30 through December 2, 1993, at Pachyderm Studios, by Brian Paulson. It was released by Merge Records in 1994.

The cover art is credited to the band's bassist, Laura Ballance.

This is the second consecutive Superchunk album where the band recorded a song of the same name, but didn't put it on the album. The US vinyl edition of the album included "Foolish" on a bonus 7" single. The song eventually appeared on the band's Incidental Music compilation.

The video for "Driveway to Driveway" is a takeoff on the classic film The Philadelphia Story. In the video, drummer Jon Wurster plays a rich buffoon and singer Mac McCaughan plays a scrappy lower-class guy both competing for the affections of Ballance's character. Guitarist Jim Wilbur plays a butler. The four members also portray musicians.

Foolish (Shawty Lo song)

"Foolish" is the third single from Shawty Lo's debut album Units in the City. The song was officially released and added on iTunes on June 17, 2008.

Foolish (film)

Foolish is a 1999 comedy drama film directed by Dave Meyers and starring Master P and Eddie Griffin. It was No Limit Films second theatrical release after I Got the Hook Up.

Foolish (soundtrack)

Foolish is the soundtrack to the film of the same name. It was released on March 23, 1999 through No Limit Records and was mainly produced by Beats By the Pound.

The soundtrack proved to be fairly successful, peaking at #32 on the Billboard 200 and #10 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. It was certified gold by the RIAA on April 27, 1999 for sales of over 500,000 copies.

Foolish (Tyler James song)

"Foolish" is a song by British singer–songwriter Tyler James. It was released as the second single from his debut album studio album The Unlikely Lad (2005). It was released in the United Kingdom on 7 March 2005. The song peaked to number 16 on the UK Singles Chart, his first Top 20 single in the UK.

Usage examples of "foolish".

Mishani would never have believed it possible - not only that Lucia had been allowed to reach eight harvests of age in the first place, but also that the Empress was foolish enough to think the high families would allow an Aberrant to rule Saramyr.

Always superstitious, I was on the point of accepting, and that for the most foolish reason-namely, that there would be no premeditation in that strange resolution, and it might be the impulse of fate.

I found my conduct excusable, as the chances were a hundred to one against her accepting the proposal I had been foolish enough to make.

He, I know--for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made--thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end.

For the Amar, floating ghosts were the most horrible of monsters, creatures unkillable that sucked the souls from the bodies of helpless, hapless warriors foolish enough to venture within the mists.

So sit I here animadverting whiles thou kicketh up a dust in fashion foolish and un-reeve-like.

I was so astonished at this speech that I looked quite foolish and had to collect my senses.

I uttered some expressions of sympathy, and the boor did not take the trouble to answer me, but I was avenged for his foolish stiffness by the enthusiasm with which I was welcomed by everyone else.

Within the pile of sand and soil and rock from which the pansies sprouted, were a maze of tiny crevices and caverns, and from each peeked the feathered head of an axolotl, speckled and foolish.

A cross-country trek at night through an alien wilderness would be dangerous, not to say foolish, in my present condition, but I had to get back to the Bandersnatch soon.

It was not difficult to see why the Baptist attracted the masses, why some might even have been foolish enough to wonder if he were the Messiah.

Despite his bawling like a pig with a cut hock, no one did anything foolish, for which Liu Han was heartily glad.

Fool, I, Rob, do rob and have robbed greater robbers that I might by robbery live to rob like robbers again, as thou, by thy foolish folly, fooleries make, befooling fools lesser than thou, that thou, Fool, by such fool-like fooleries may live to fool like fools again!

My great-aunt asked me to dinner, and when I went I found the foolish young man and his father present, together with my grandfather, who formally introduced him to me as my future husband, and begged me to fix the wedding day.

Alastair Bing divested himself of his jacket and boots, and, feeling extremely foolish, stepped into the bath.