Get to know Foolish better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like absurd or vacuous.
Foolish meaning
- Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
- Resembling or characteristic of a fool.
Synonyms of Foolish
Using Foolish
- The main meaning on this page is: Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise. | Resembling or characteristic of a fool.
- Useful related words include: absurd, vacuous, mindless, inane.
- In the example corpus, foolish often appears in combinations such as: foolish to, be foolish, foolish and.
Context around Foolish
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Foolish
- In this selection, "foolish" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, shamelessly, looks, considered, man, misjudgment and companies stand out and add context to how "foolish" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a shamelessly foolish man and australians was foolish because giving. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "foolish" sits close to words such as ageing, biting and bonnie, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with foolish
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
As we saw over the past few weeks, that was foolish. (11 words)
He absorbs it, he said, to help prevent kids from doing something foolish. (13 words)
To take Trump literally is foolish; not to take him seriously is even more foolish. (15 words)
As the fanbase has tried to keep up with the chaos and grasp this team’s true potential (or lack thereof), the Flyers’ Twitterverse has begun to look as foolish and disjointed as the 5-on-3 power play. (39 words)
After an early and secret marriage to and divorce from her college sweetheart, a foolish man who wanted her to live with him in Texas after she’d been offered a job in New York, Paddleford never remarried. (38 words)
He thought that Republican reluctance to permit the transfer to the Australians was “foolish because giving us the ability to have that type of presence in the Pacific with a strong ally makes a lot of sense”. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
To take Trump literally is foolish; not to take him seriously is even more foolish.
I hope you know we know you think we’re foolish, but you also know we know that you’re indeed a shamelessly foolish man.
After an early and secret marriage to and divorce from her college sweetheart, a foolish man who wanted her to live with him in Texas after she’d been offered a job in New York, Paddleford never remarried.
After Brexit, too many investors took flight – a serious and foolish misjudgment – which meant UK companies were left undervalued and priced at a discount, particularly to their European peers.
All current plans are solely looking at renewables, with no plans for maintaining critical "base load" generating capacity - how foolish and short sighted.
And as Mahito eventually learns, to attempt to face any of it alone would be foolish.
Another lesson I wish that I had learned before investing in high yield stocks is that it is foolish to completely ignore macroeconomic factors.
As SEOs, we’d be foolish to ignore the potentially seismic shifts we are seeing implemented, seemingly on a weekly basis.
As the fanbase has tried to keep up with the chaos and grasp this team’s true potential (or lack thereof), the Flyers’ Twitterverse has begun to look as foolish and disjointed as the 5-on-3 power play.
As we saw over the past few weeks, that was foolish.
At the same time, the Trump administration’s loosening of liquidity and other regulatory requirements for banks now looks foolish.
But the dismissal of Belichick’s role because the post-Brady years have not gone well is both foolish and unfair.
Foolish companies who ostracize a large portion of their consumers when there are plenty of other companies with the same product.
For instance, it was considered foolish to estimate how long a coding task might take, since at any moment the programmer might turn over a rock and discover a tangle of bugs.
For now, the money train is underway, and you would be mindbogglingly foolish to miss out on the easy gravy to be had.
He absorbs it, he said, to help prevent kids from doing something foolish.
He thought that Republican reluctance to permit the transfer to the Australians was “foolish because giving us the ability to have that type of presence in the Pacific with a strong ally makes a lot of sense”.
He will be attacked, but it would be foolish to count him out at this point.
I had thought last time might be Jean’s big chance, because surely the UCP couldn’t be foolish enough to give Smith another chance.
I mean, the TV news channel here generates significant revenue for Sky News, and it would be very foolish to ignore that.
Common combinations with foolish
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- foolish to 37×
- be foolish 36×
- foolish and 21×
- and foolish 16×
- is foolish 12×
- look foolish 11×
- the foolish 9×
- as foolish 7×
- was foolish 7×
- of foolish 7×