Found 3 items, similar to FOOL.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: fool bodoh, membodohi
English → English (WordNet) Definition: fool fool n 1: a person who lacks good judgment [syn: sap, saphead, muggins, tomfool] 2: a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of [syn: chump, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch , mug] 3: a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages [syn: jester, motley fool] fool v 1: make a fool or dupe of [syn: gull, befool] 2: spend frivolously and unwisely; “Fritter away one's inheritance” [syn: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool away] 3: fool or hoax; “The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone”; “You can't fool me!” [syn: gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, put on, take in, put one over, put one across ] 4: indulge in horseplay; “Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!”; “The bored children were fooling about” [syn: horse around , arse around, fool around]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Fool Fool \Fool\, n. [Cf. F. fouler to tread, crush. Cf. 1st Foil.] A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool. [1913 Webster] Fool \Fool\, n. [OE. fol, n. & adj., F. fol, fou, foolish, mad; a fool, prob. fr. L. follis a bellows, wind bag, an inflated ball; perh. akin to E. bellows. Cf. Folly, Follicle.] 1. One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural. [1913 Webster] 2. A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt. [1913 Webster] Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. --Franklin. [1913 Webster] 3. (Script.) One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person. [1913 Webster] The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. --Ps. xiv. 1. [1913 Webster] 4. One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments. [1913 Webster] Can they think me . . . their fool or jester? --Milton. [1913 Webster] April fool, Court fool, etc. See under April, Court, etc. Fool's cap, a cap or hood to which bells were usually attached, formerly worn by professional jesters. Fool's errand, an unreasonable, silly, profitless adventure or undertaking. Fool's gold, iron or copper pyrites, resembling gold in color. Fool's paradise, a name applied to a limbo (see under Limbo) popularly believed to be the region of vanity and nonsense. Hence, any foolish pleasure or condition of vain self-satistaction. Fool's parsley (Bot.), an annual umbelliferous plant ([AE]thusa Cynapium) resembling parsley, but nauseous and poisonous. To make a fool of, to render ridiculous; to outwit; to shame. [Colloq.] To play the fool, to act the buffoon; to act a foolish part. “I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.” --1 Sam. xxvi. 21. [1913 Webster] Fool \Fool\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fooled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fooling.] To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth. [1913 Webster] Is this a time for fooling? --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Fool \Fool\, v. t. 1. To infatuate; to make foolish. --Shak. [1913 Webster] For, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money. [1913 Webster] You are fooled, discarded, and shook off By him for whom these shames ye underwent. --Shak. [1913 Webster] To fool away, to get rid of foolishly; to spend in trifles, idleness, folly, or without advantage. [1913 Webster]