Folly

Noun

 * 1) foolishness
 * 2) thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence
 * 3) a fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons

Adjectives for Folly
sheer; ludicrous; violent; prostrate; wilful; gratuitous; vain; shouting; stupendous; industrious; crowning; derogatory; egregious; serious; rash; present; deplorable; superfluous; sordid; idiotical; capricious; incurable; human; sentimental; disastrous; daring; amiable; pernicious; extreme; enormous; impious; obvious; ingrained; youthful (pi); amorous; harmless; pretty; wild; glaring; covert; pretentious; incredible; ridiculous; countless (pi); flagrant; repudiated; irritating; repented; repeated; absurd; intermittent (pi).

Verbs for Folly
a of—; balk at—of; commit to—; decry—; deplore—; discern—; emancipate from—; fall into—; flatter into—; guard against—; lure into—; mitigate—; regret—; ridicule—; rue—; run after—ies ; scorn—; uncover—; vex with—; work—.

Synonyms for Folly
foolishness, weakness, silliness, imbecility, absurdity, madness, imprudence, misconduct, fatuity, simplicity, weak-mindedness, shallowness.

Antonyms for Folly
wisdom, prudence, sapience, knowledge, forethought, understanding, discernment, craftiness, judgment, cunning, artfulness, shrewdness, subtlety, astuteness, acuteness, wiliness, cleverness, ingenuity.

Related terms

 * fool
 * foolery
 * foolish

Thesaurus
absurdity, absurdness, act of folly, asininity, battiness, blunder, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, daftness, desipience, dottiness, dumb trick, dumbness, eccentricity, error, fatuity, fatuousness, faux pas, fluff, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, gaffe, giddiness, goof, goofiness, idiocy, imbecility, imprudence, inanity, indiscretion, ineptitude, insanity, irrationality, kookiness, lunacy, madness, mindlessness, mistake, niaiserie, nonsense, nugacity, nuttiness, obtuseness, preposterousness, queerness, rashness, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, silliness, sottise, stolidity, stolidness, stupid thing, stupidity, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triviality, unwise step, wackiness, weak-mindedness, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism

Etymology
From, fol:.

Pronunciation




Translations

 * Esperanto: malsaĝeco
 * Finnish:, hulluus, typeryys
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, ostobaság


 * Polish: głupota
 * Portuguese: bobeira
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,


 * Finnish: hullutus, hölmöily, hömpötys
 * Hungarian:


 * Scottish Gaelic: