| 单词 | foolish |
| 释义 | foolish (once / 137 pages) adj Foolish people are silly or senseless, and when you do something foolish, it's clearly unwise or irrational. Sitting on the hood of a car while your friend is driving is a foolish thing to do. Things that show a lack of judgment are foolish, like cheating on a test or running into the street after a basketball. Foolish decisions at work can cost you your job, and foolish comments can hurt people's feelings. Foolish is a 14th century word that comes from fool, a person who's unwise. The Latin root, follis, means "bellows" or "leather bag." The "silly person" meaning comes from the figurative idea of a "windbag." WORD FAMILYfoolish: foolisher, foolishest, foolishly, foolishness+/fool: fooled, foolery, fooling, foolish, fools/foolery: fooleries/foolishness: foolishnesses USAGE EXAMPLESIt would be foolish to let Cousins walk. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Which is why Trump’s embrace of the carbon bubble is particularly foolish. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) “I think you’d be foolish not to look over the fence and see what the neighbor’s got in their backyard,” he said. Wall Street Journal(Dec 30, 2016) 1adj devoid of good sense or judgment foolish remarks a foolish decision Syn|Ant inadvisable, unadvisable not prudent or wise; not recommended ill-advised, unadvisedwithout careful prior deliberation or counsel impoliticnot politic imprudentnot prudent or wise absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculousincongruous;inviting ridicule asinine, fatuous, inane, mindless, vacuousdevoid of intelligence cockamamie, cockamamy, goofy, sappy, silly, wacky, whacky, zanyludicrous, foolish fondabsurd or silly because unlikely harebrained, insane, madvery foolish ill-conceived, misguidedpoorly conceived or thought out rattlebrained, rattlepated, scatterbrained, scattylacking sense or discretion unwiseshowing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom wise having or prompted by wisdom or discernment advisableworthy of being recommended or suggested; prudent or wise advised, well-advisedhaving the benefit of careful prior consideration or counsel politicmarked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness prudentcareful and sensible; marked by sound judgment all-knowing, omniscientinfinitely wise perspicacious, sagacious, sapientacutely insightful and wise owlishresembling an owl; solemn and wise in appearance sapientialcharacterized by wisdom, especially the wisdom of God sagehaving wisdom that comes with age and experience 2adj having or revealing stupidity Syn anserine, dopey, dopy, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky stupid lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity |
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