Fool

Quick meaning: Fool is a noun meaning (derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

Meaning

(derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

More Meanings

1. Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
2. (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
3. (tarot, often capitalized Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
4. (derogatory, slang) A tankie.
5. (literature) 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.
6. (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
7. (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, Hispanic) An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.

Example Sentences

No man is always a fool, every man is sometimes.

The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.

You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken ⁠Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools

Word Forms

• fools
• fooling
• fooled
• fooler
• foolest

Synonyms for fool

Depending on context, synonyms include jester, joker, dupe, mark, goat, fan.

Antonyms for fool

Common opposites include sage.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include muggins, schlemiel, saphead, anserine, chump, cockamamy.

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