Words That Mean Foolish
Foolishness comes in flavours: fatuous is smug about it, inane is empty, imprudent simply did not think ahead.
8 words
- Fatuousadjective
devoid of intelligence
- Imprudentadjective
not prudent or wise; ; - A.M.Schlesinger
- Inaneadjective
devoid of intelligence
- Ludicrousadjective
broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce
- Obtuseadjective
slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; ; ; - Thackeray
- Preposterousadjective
incongruous;inviting ridicule
- Puerileadjective
of or characteristic of a child
- Vacuousadjective
devoid of significance or point
Study these against
A word’s meaning sharpens against its opposite. These sets are the ones worth holding beside foolish.