| Pronunciation: | | 'fâlee
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- [n] foolish or senseless behavior
- [n] a stupid mistake
- [n] the trait of acting stupidly or rashly
- [n] the quality of being rash and foolish
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| | Synonyms: | | betise, craziness, foolery, foolishness, foolishness, foolishness, imbecility, indulgence, stupidity, tomfoolery, unwiseness |
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| | Antonyms: | | wisdom, wiseness |
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| | See Also: | | absurdity, buffoonery, caper, clowning, error, fatuity, fatuousness, fault, frivolity, frolic, gambol, harlequinade, indiscretion, injudiciousness, mistake, play, prank, romp, silliness, stupidity, trait |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fol"ly\, n.; pl. {Follies}. [OE. folie, foli, F. folie,
fr. fol, fou, foolish, mad. See {Fool}.]
1. The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity,
weakness, or derangement of mind.
2. A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure;
weak or light-minded conduct; foolery.
What folly 'tis to hazard life for ill. --Shak.
3. Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a
woman, wantonness.
[Achan] wrought folly in Israel. --Josh. vii.
15.
When lovely woman stoops to folly. --Goldsmith.
4. The result of a foolish action or enterprise.
It is called this man's or that man's ``folly,'' and
name of the foolish builder is thus kept alive for
long after years. --Trench.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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