Synonyms of the word

fool

• n. (pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
• n. (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
• n. (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
• n. (slang) Buddy, dude, person.
• n. (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
• n. (often capitalized, Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck.
• v. To trick; to make a fool of someone.
• v. To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

befool

• v. (transitive, archaic) To make a fool out of (someone); to fool, trick, or deceive (someone).

betray

• v. To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously…
• v. To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive.
• v. To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make…
• v. To disclose or discover, for example something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
• v. To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.
• v. To lead astray; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.
• v. To show or to indicate something not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.

buffoon

• n. One who acts in a silly or ridiculous fashion; a clown or fool.
• n. (pejorative) An unintentionally ridiculous person.
• v. To behave like a buffoon.

chump

• n. (colloquial, pejorative) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
• n. A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
• n. The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
• v. Dated form of chomp.

clown

• n. A performance artist often associated with a circus and typically characterised by bright, oversized clothing,…
• n. A person who acts in a silly fashion.
• n. (Britain) A stupid person.
• n. (obsolete) A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor.
• n. (obsolete) One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl.
• v. (intransitive) To act in a silly or playful fashion.

cod

• n. (obsolete) A small bag or pouch.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A husk or integument; a pod.
• n. (now rare) The scrotum (also in plural).
• n. (obsolete or Britain dialectal, Scotland) A pillow or cushion.
• n. The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua.
• n. The sea fish of the genus Gadus generally, as inclusive of the Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus)and Greenland…
• n. The sea fish of the family Gadidae which are sold as "cod", as haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus) and…
• n. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other unrelated fish which are similarly important to regional fisheries,…
• n. (informal, usually with qualifiers) Other unrelated fish which resemble the Atlantic cod, as the rock…
• n. A joke or an imitation.
• n. A stupid or foolish person.
• adj. Having the character of imitation; jocular. (now usually attributive, forming mostly compound adjectives).
• v. (slang, transitive, dialectal) To attempt to deceive or confuse.

consume

• v. (transitive) To use up.
• v. (transitive) To use (without using up).
• v. (transitive) To eat.
• v. (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy completely.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To waste away slowly.

cozen

• v. (archaic) To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.

deceive

• v. To trick or mislead.

delude

• v. (transitive) To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To frustrate or disappoint.

dissipate

• v. To drive away, disperse.
• v. To use up or waste.
• v. To vanish by dispersion.

dupe

• n. A person who has been deceived.
• v. To swindle, deceive, or trick.
• n. (photography) A duplicate of a photographic image.
• n. (restaurant industry) A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
• n. (informal) A duplicate.
• v. (transitive) To duplicate.

fritter

• n. A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.
• n. A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
• v. (intransitive, often with about or around) To occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker…
• v. (transitive) To sinter.
• v. (transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
• v. (transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.

gull

• n. A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
• n. (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
• n. One easily cheated; a dupe.
• v. To deceive or cheat.
• v. (US, slang) To mislead.
• v. (US, slang) To trick and defraud.

jest

• n. (archaic) An act performed for amusement; a joke.
• n. (archaic) Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke.
• n. (obsolete) A deed; an action; a gest.
• n. (obsolete) A mask; a pageant; an interlude.
• v. To tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone.
• adv. (African American Vernacular, Southern US) Alternative spelling of just.

jester

• n. One who jests, jokes or mocks.
• n. A person in colorful garb and fool's cap who amused a medieval and early modern royal or noble court.

joke

• n. An amusing story.
• n. Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness.
• n. (figuratively) The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one.
• n. (figuratively) A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham.
• v. (intransitive) To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously.
• v. (transitive, dated) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally.

mark

• n. (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
• n. (heading) Characteristic, sign, visible impression.
• n. (heading) Indicator of position, objective etc.
• n. (heading) Attention.
• v. To put a mark upon; to make recognizable by a mark.
• v. To indicate in some way for later reference.
• v. To take note of.
• v. To blemish, scratch, or stain.
• v. To indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc.
• v. To keep account of; to enumerate and register.
• v. (Australian Rules football) To catch the ball directly from a kick of 10 metres or more without having…
• v. (sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a…
• v. (golf) To put a marker in the place of one's ball.
• v. (singing) To sing softly, and perhaps an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during…
• n. A measure of weight (especially for gold and silver), once used throughout Europe, equivalent to 8 oz.
• n. (now historical) An English and Scottish unit of currency (originally valued at one mark weight of silver),…
• n. Any of various European monetary units, especially the base unit of currency of Germany between 1948 and…
• n. A mark coin.
• v. (imperative, marching) Alternative form of march (said to be easier to pronounce while giving a command).

mug

• adj. (archaic) Easily fooled, gullible.
• n. A large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer.
• n. (slang) The face, often used deprecatingly.
• n. (slang, vulgar) A gullible or easily-cheated person.
• n. (Britain, Australia, slang) A stupid or contemptible person.
• v. (transitive, obsolete, Britain) To strike in the face.
• v. (transitive) To assault for the purpose of robbery.
• v. (intransitive) To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose,…
• v. (transitive) To photograph for identification; to take a mug shot.
• v. Learn or review a subject as much as possible in a short time; cram.
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) Motherfucker (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" or "as a mug").

muggins

• n. A fool or idiot (especially as an ironic way of referring to oneself).
• n. (cribbage) The act of stealing another player's points because they either mis-pegged or counted up incorrectly.
• n. A game of dominoes in which the object is to make the sum of the two ends of the line some multiple of…
• n. A card game based on building in suits or matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of one's…

patsy

• n. (informal, derogatory) A person who is taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something.

play

• v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
• v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
• v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
• v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
• v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
• v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
• v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
• v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
• v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
• v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
• n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
• n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
• n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
• n. The conduct, or course of a game.
• n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
• n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
• n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
• n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
• n. (countable) A major move by a business.
• n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
• n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
• n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

sap

• n. (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating…
• n. (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
• n. (slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
• n. (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
• v. (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
• n. (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of…
• v. (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
• v. (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
• v. (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
• v. (transitive) To gradually weaken.
• v. (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

saphead

• n. A simpleton, a stupid person.

shoot

• v. To launch a projectile.
• v. To move or act quickly or suddenly.
• v. (sports) To act or achieve.
• v. (surveying) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
• v. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
• v. To develop, move forward.
• v. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
• v. (carpentry) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
• v. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.^W.
• n. The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
• n. A photography session.
• n. A hunt or shooting competition.
• n. (professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
• n. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
• n. A rush of water; a rapid.
• n. (mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
• n. (weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
• n. A shoat; a young pig.
• n. An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; a…
• interj. A mild expletive, expressing disbelief or disdain.

simple

• adj. Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
• adj. Without ornamentation; plain.
• adj. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
• adj. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
• adj. (now rare) Trivial; insignificant.
• adj. (now colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish.
• adj. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.
• adj. (obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.
• n. (medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
• n. (obsolete) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above.
• n. (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
• n. (obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.
• n. (weaving) A drawloom.
• n. (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
• n. (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, i.e., medicinal herbs.

simpleton

• n. (pejorative) A simple person lacking common sense.

slang

• n. Language outside of conventional usage.
• n. Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon.
• n. The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those…
• v. (transitive, dated) To vocally abuse, or shout at.
• v. (archaic) simple past tense of sling.
• n. (Britain, dialect) Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.

squander

• v. To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.
• v. (obsolete) To scatter; to disperse.
• v. (obsolete) To wander at random; to scatter.

sucker

• n. A person or thing that sucks.
• n. An organ or body part that does the sucking.
• n. An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
• n. Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into…
• n. A piece of candy which is sucked; a lollipop.
• n. (horticulture) An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially…
• n. (Britain, colloquial) A suction cup.
• n. A suckling animal.
• n. The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
• n. A pipe through which anything is drawn.
• n. A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated…
• n. A parasite; a sponger.
• n. (slang, archaic) A hard drinker; a soaker.
• v. (transitive) To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
• n. One who is easily fooled, or gulled.
• v. To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
• n. (slang) A thing or object. Any thing or object being called attention to with emphasis, as in "this sucker".

tomfool

• adj. silly or stupid.
• n. a silly or stupid person.

victim

• n. Anyone who is harmed by another.
• n. (original sense) A living creature which is slain and offered as human or animal sacrifice, usually in…
• n. An aggrieved or disadvantaged party in a crime (e.g. swindle.).
• n. A person who suffers any other injury, loss, or damage as a result of a voluntary undertaking.
• n. An unfortunate person who suffers from a disaster or other adverse circumstance.
• n. (narratology) A character who is conquered or manipulated by a villain.

ware

• adj. (poetic) aware.
• n. (obsolete) The state of being aware; heed.
• n. (uncountable, usually in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
• n. (in the plural) See wares.
• n. (uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.
• n. (countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
• n. (Ireland) Crockery.
• v. (obsolete or dialectal) To be ware or mindful of something.
• v. (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
• adj. (obsolete) wary; cautious.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) seaweed.
• v. (nautical) To wear, or veer.

waste

• n. Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
• n. Excrement or urine.
• n. A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
• n. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
• n. A large tract of uncultivated land.
• n. (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays…
• n. A vast expanse of water.
• n. A disused mine or part of one.
• n. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
• n. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
• n. Gradual loss or decay.
• n. A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
• n. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste".
• n. (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the…
• n. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the…
• adj. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
• adj. Barren; desert.
• adj. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
• adj. Superfluous; needless.
• adj. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
• adj. Unfortunate; disappointing.
• v. (transitive) to devastate, destroy.
• v. (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
• v. (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to…
• v. (intransitive) Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
• v. (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
• v. (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences,…