Crossword clues for foolish
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foolish \Fool"ish\, a.
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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. Such as a fool would do; proceeding from weakness of mind or silliness; exhibiting a want of judgment or discretion; as, a foolish act.
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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
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
a. 1 (label en of a person, an action, etc.) Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise. 2 Resembling or characteristic of a fool.
WordNet
Wikipedia
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" 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 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" 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 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 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" 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.