Fool

Noun

 * 1)  A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
 * 2)  A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court.
 * 3) Someone who very much likes something specified.
 * 4) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
 * 5)  A particular card in a tarot deck.

Verb

 * 1) To trick; to make a fool of someone.

Verbs for Fool
appear like—; play the—; prove oneself a—; put the—upon; remain—; ridicule—; suspect oneself—; think one a—; turn—; —apes; —beckons; —capers; —complains; —counterfeits; —disregards; —diverts; — dotes; —gambols; —ignores; —jests; —lets slip; —mistakes; —possesses; —prates; — preaches; —sidles; —mocks.

Adverbs for Fool
amiably; ignorantly; wantonly; pitifully; blindly; hatefully; vulgarly; tediously; clumsily; unfeelingly; ungratefully; venomously; deliberately; sportively; shallowly.

Synonyms for Fool

 * See also Thesaurus:fool
 * jester, joker
 * gobshite
 * (verb) : trick, deceive, cheat, delude, con, dupe, pretend, make believe, hoodwink, mystify.

Antonyms for Foool

 * (verb): honor, respect, disabuse, clarify, authenticate.

Derived terms

 * befool
 * fool about
 * fool around
 * foolhardy
 * foolish
 * foolishness


 * foolometer
 * fool's errand
 * fool's gold
 * fool's paradise
 * more fool you
 * play the fool
 * suffer fools gladly

Thesaurus
asinine, ass, babe, bamboozle, banter, batty, be foolish, be stupid, befool, befooled, beguiled, besotted, birdbrain, blockhead, bluff, bonehead, boob, booby, brainless, buffo, buffoon, buffoonish, busybody, butt, butt in, byword, byword of reproach, cavort, cheat, chouse, chucklehead, chump, cinch, clod, clodpate, clodpoll, clown, clown around, cockeyed, come-on, comedian, comedienne, comic, con, coquet, cozen, crazy, credulous, credulous person, cretin, cull, dabble, dabbler, daffy, daft, dally, dawdle, dazed, deceive, defraud, delude, derision, dilettante, dimwit, dizzy, dolt, donkey, doodle, dope, doting, droll, dumb, dumbbell, dummy, dunce, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, entertainer, fair game, fake, fake out, fall guy, farceur, fatuitous, fatuous, featherbrain, featherhead, feign, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle-faddle, fidget with, figure of fun, finger with, fish, flaky, fleece, flirt, fond, fool around, fool with, foolheaded, foolish, footle, fribble, frivol, frolic, fuddled, futile, gaga, gambol, game, gazingstock, get funny, git, go haywire, goat, gobe-mouches, goofy, goon, goose, greener, greenhorn, greeny, gudgeon, gull, gulled, half-wit, harlequin, hoax, hoodwink, horn in, horse around, humbug, idiot, idiotic, idle, ignoramus, illiterate, illiterati, imbecile, inane, inept, infatuated, innocent, insane, instrument, interfere, interlope, intermeddle, invite ridicule, jack-pudding, jackass, jay, jerk, jerk off, jest, jester, jestingstock, joke, joker, jokester, josh, kid, kid around, know-nothing, kooky, laughingstock, lead on, leadpipe cinch, loiter, loon, loony, loser, lowbrow, mad, madman, make, make believe, mark, maudlin, meddle with, merry-andrew, mess around, middlebrow, mislead, mockery, monkey, monkey around, monkey with, mooncalf, moron, moronic, motley, motley fool, mug, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nit, nitwit, no scholar, numskull, nutty, oaf, patsy, pickle-herring, piddle, pigeon, pinhead, play, play around, play the buffoon, play the fool, play with, plaything, pluck, poop, potter, pretend, prize sap, puddinghead, pushover, put one on, putter, rattlebrain, retard, romp, sap, saphead, sappy, scatterbrain, schlemiel, schmuck, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly, simple, simpleton, sitting duck, smatter, snow, softhead, spoof, stock, stooge, string along, stupid, sucker, swindle, take in, tamper, tamper with, target, tease, tenderfoot, thoughtless, tinker, tomfool, tool, toy, toy with, trick, trifle, trifle with, trusting soul, twiddle, twist, twit, unintelligentsia, victim, wacky, wanton, wet, witless, zany

Etymology
From fol: from  fol: (French fou:) from  follis:.

Noun

 * Arabic: مغفل, أحمق
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: дурань
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 蠢人,  ,  傻子,  ,  蠢貨,  蠢货
 * Min Nan:
 * Croatian: budala, glupan
 * Czech:, , šašek,  pošetilec,  blbec,  blb,  blboun,
 * Danish: fjols
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: malsaĝulo
 * Finnish:, , , , , , , , , narri
 * French: ,
 * Galician: choucho
 * German:, ,  ,   ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:, ,  ,


 * Japanese: 愚か者, 惚け, , 愚者, あほ (also: アホ)
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: muļķis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Persian: احمق
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , дурень ;
 * Scottish Gaelic: amadan, òinseach
 * Serbian: glupak, glupan , budala , luđak , buzda ,
 * Sicilian: babbu
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:, , ,
 * Spanish:, , necio
 * Swahili:, mjinga,
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian: дурень


 * Armenian: խեղկատակ (xeghkatak)
 * Croatian: luda, luđak
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: γελωτοποιός,  τζουτζές
 * Italian:, , pagliaccio


 * Japanese: 道化師 (どうけし, dōkeshi)
 * Lithuanian: juokdarys
 * Portuguese: bobo da corte, bobo
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: шут (šut)
 * Serbian: dvorska luda, šutnik , šut , luda , luđak
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:, mjinga
 * Swedish:


 * German:
 * Swahili:, mjinga


 * Swedish:


 * Catalan: el boig
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * French: le mat, le fou
 * German: der Narr
 * Greek: κάρτα ταρό
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian: il matto, il folle
 * Korean: 광대
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: o louco
 * Spanish: el loco, el bufón
 * Swahili:

Verb

 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: obelhávat,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: huijata (1), narrata (1), puliveivata (1, colloquial)
 * French: déconner
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ξεγελάω


 * Italian:, s.o., ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: okabátiť
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:, mjinga

Etymology
See English fool:.

Noun

 * 1) fool

Noun

 * 1) mad man