Food, n.
- 1. Aliment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, bread, nourishment, meat, provisions, victuals, viands, diet,
regimen, fare, cheer, commons, pabulum, subsistence, rations.
- 2. [For cattle, etc.] Feed, fodder, forage, provender.
Fool, n.
- 1. Idiot, natural.
- 2. Dolt, witling, driveller, idiot, simpleton, ninny, nincompoop, blockhead. See dunce.
- 3. Buffoon, harlequin, droll, punch, antic, jester, zany, clown, merry-andrew, scaramouch, jack-pudding,
pickle-herring.
Fool, v. n. Trifle, toy, play, jest, play the fool, play in the monkey, act like a fool.
Fool, v. a. Deceive, cheat, trick, dupe, gull, delude, circumvent, cozen, overreach, beguile, hoodwink, chouse, cully, impose upon.
Foolery, n.
- 1. Absurdity, nonsense, folly, foolishness.
- 2. Buffoonery, tomfoolery, mummery, foolish conduct.
Foolhardy, a. Rash, venturous, adventurous, venturesome, reckless, desperate, hot-headed, hot-brained, hair-brained, headlong, precipitate, madly rash.
Foolish, a.
- 1. Senseless, idiotic, silly, weak, daft, simple, irrational, insensate, shallow, brainless, witless, thick-skulled,
buffle-headed, shallow-brained.
- 2. Unwise, unreasonable, absurd, ridiculous, nonsensical, ill-judged, preposterous, indiscreet, imprudent.
- 3. Idle, trivial, trifling, vain, childish, puerile, contemptible.
Foolishness, n.
- 1. Folly, silliness, imbecility, stupidity, fatuity, shallowness, dulness, doltishness.
- 2. Absurdity, extravagance, nonsense, imprudence, indiscretion.