单词 | foolishness |
释义 | foolishness (once / 1560 pages) n WORD FAMILY foolishness: foolishnesses+/fool: fooled, foolery, fooling, foolish, fools/foolery: fooleries/foolish: foolisher, foolishest, foolishly, foolishness USAGE EXAMPLESIn a 2014 interview, he told The Washington Post that criticism of their treatment by human rights groups and others was “foolishness.’ Washington Post(Dec 07, 2016) “He paid the extreme consequence for his conduct. He lost his life for his foolishness.” New York Times(Dec 05, 2016) In fact foolishness, vulgarity, inconsistency and irresponsibility seem actually to be British inventions that have been painstakingly copied – once more – by the Americans. The Guardian(Nov 25, 2016) 1n the quality of being rash and foolish adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness Syn|Hyper craziness, folly, madness stupidity a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience 2n the trait of acting stupidly or rashly Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper folly, unwiseness wisdom, wiseness the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight indiscretion, injudiciousness the trait of being injudicious absurdity, fatuity, fatuousness, sillinessa ludicrous folly asininitythe quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with stubbornness trait a distinguishing feature of your personal nature 3n a stupid mistake Syn|Hyper betise, folly, imbecility, stupidity error, fault, mistake a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention |
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