foolish

[US]/ˈfuːlɪʃ/
[UK]/ˈfuːlɪʃ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. lacking good sense or judgment; silly or unwise; showing a lack of intelligence or thought; clumsy

Example Sentences

foolish pride; foolish love.

It is foolish to haphazardly adventure.

a foolish young fellow;

a foolish expenditure of time and energy.

He was so foolish as to lie.

beweep one's foolish mistake

spent all their money on foolish little knickknacks.

Have done with your foolish quibbling

it was foolish of you to enter into correspondence.

I'm not so foolish as to say that.

Don't worry me with such foolish questions.

I count it foolish to let him go.

That foolish fellow is looking for trouble.

No one is foolish enough to endorse it.

I feel foolish telling you this.

Real-world Examples

Beneath were the words, " Stay hungry, stay foolish"

Source: Steve Jobs' speech

She laughed at the bird and called him foolish.

Source: Recitation for Kings Volume 1 (All 100 Lessons)

Some remain hopelessly stuck in a loop of infantile foolishness.

Source: Focus on the Oscars

But you–you have been just as foolish as I.

Source: The Little Prince

Don't bother me with such foolish questions.

Source: High-frequency vocabulary in daily life

That foolish, foolish woman. She swallowed four razor blades?

Source: Grey's Anatomy Season 2

Like many a casus belli, theirs seems both foolish and profound.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Her genre of movies are seen as a little bit foolish.

Source: Emily in Paris Season 1

As the man himself said Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

Source: How Steve Jobs Changed the World

But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.

Source: Selected Literary Poems

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