Synonyms of the word

foolish

• adj. (of a person, an action, etc.) Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
• adj. Resembling or characteristic of a fool.

absurd

• adj. Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the…
• adj. (obsolete) Inharmonious; dissonant.
• adj. Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
• adj. Dealing with absurdism.
• n. (obsolete) An absurdity.
• n. (philosophy, often preceded by the) The opposition between the human search for meaning in life and the…

anserine

• adj. Silly, foolish, stupid.
• adj. Pertaining to a goose or geese; gooselike.
• n. (biochemistry) A dipeptide compound present in birds and other vertebrates, originally isolated from goose…

asinine

• adj. Failing to exercise intelligence or judgment; ridiculously below average rationality.
• adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of donkeys.

cockamamie

• n. (US, chiefly dated) A decal, a design that can be transferred to a surface.
• n. A foolish or ridiculous person.
• adj. Foolish, ill-considered, silly, unbelievable.
• adj. Trifling.

cockamamy

• adj. foolish, silly.
• adj. trifling.

cockeyed

• adj. (US) Having both eyes oriented inward.
• adj. (US) Crooked or askew.
• adj. (US, informal) Absurd, silly, or stupid; usually used in reference to ideas rather than people.
• adj. Drunk.

derisory

• adj. Laughably small or inadequate.
• adj. derisive; laughable; ridiculous.

dopey

• adj. Stupid, silly.

dopy

• adj. Alternative spelling of dopey.

fatuous

• adj. Obnoxiously stupid, vacantly silly, content in one's foolishness.

fond

• adj. (chiefly with of) Having a liking or affection (for).
• adj. Affectionate.
• adj. Indulgent.
• adj. Outlandish; foolish; silly.
• adj. (obsolete) Foolish; simple; weak.
• adj. (obsolete) Doted on; regarded with affection.
• v. (obsolete) To have a foolish affection for, to be fond of.
• v. (obsolete) To caress; to fondle.
• n. The background design in lace-making.
• n. (cooking) brown residue in pans from cooking meats and vegetables.
• n. (obsolete) Foundation; bottom; groundwork.
• n. (obsolete) Fund, stock, or store.

goofy

• adj. silly, quirky.
• adj. (snowboarding) riding with right foot forward.

gooselike

• adj. Resembling or characteristic of a goose.

goosey

• adj. Alternative spelling of goosy.

goosy

• adj. Characteristic of a goose; anserine.
• adj. (informal) foolish; silly.

harebrained

• adj. (of an idea or plan etc) absurd, foolish or stupid.
• adj. (of a person) frivolous and silly; featherbrained or scatterbrained.

idiotic

• adj. Pertaining to or resembling an idiot; afflicted with idiocy.
• adj. Having the quality of idiocy; very foolish; stupid; nonsensical.

ill-advised

• adj. Carried out without the benefit of wise counsel or careful deliberation, or carried out with unwise counsel.

ill-conceived

• adj. Not properly planned or thought through.

impolitic

• adj. Not in accordance with good policy; unwise, inexpedient; unadvisable.

imprudent

• adj. Not prudent; wanting in prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not attentive to consequence;…

inadvisable

• adj. unwise; not recommended; not prudent; not to be advised.

inane

• adj. Lacking sense or meaning (often to the point of boredom or annoyance).
• adj. Purposeless; pointless.
• n. That which is void or empty.

insane

• adj. Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted.
• adj. Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons.
• adj. Causing insanity or madness.
• adj. Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; ridiculous; unpractical.

jerky

• adj. Characterized by physical jerking.
• adj. Having the behavior of a jerk (unpleasant person).
• n. Lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun.
• v. (transitive) To cure and preserve (meat) by drying it, making jerky.

laughable

• adj. Fitted to excite laughter; humorous.
• adj. Worthless; worthy of contempt or derision.

ludicrous

• adj. Idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny.
• adj. Amusing by being plainly incongruous or absurd.

mad

• adj. Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.
• adj. (chiefly US; UK dated + regional) Angry, annoyed.
• adj. Wildly confused or excited.
• adj. Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.
• adj. (colloquial, usually with for or about) Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome…
• adj. (of animals) Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.
• adj. (slang, chiefly Northeastern US) Intensifier, signifies an abundance or high quality of a thing; very,…
• adj. (of a compass needle) Having impaired polarity.
• adv. (slang, New England, New York and Britain, dialect) Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly;…
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be or become mad.
• v. (now colloquial US) To madden, to anger, to frustrate.

mindless

• adj. Showing a lack of forethought or sense.
• adj. Having no sensible meaning or purpose.
• adj. Heedless.
• adj. (of a thing done) Overly repetitive and unchallenging.
• adj. Lacking a mind.

misguided

• adj. ill-conceived or not thought through.
• adj. misled or mistaken.
• adj. lacking proper guidance.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of misguide.

nonsensical

• adj. Without sense; unmeaning; absurd; foolish; irrational; preposterous.

preposterous

• adj. Absurd, or contrary to common sense.

rattlebrained

• adj. Foolish.

ridiculous

• adj. Deserving of ridicule; foolish; absurd.

sappy

• adj. (US) Excessively sweet, emotional, nostalgic; cheesy; mushy. (British equivalent: soppy).
• adj. Having (a particularly large amount of) sap.
• adj. (obsolete) Juicy.
• adj. (obsolete) Musty; tainted. (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +])}…

scatterbrained

• adj. Having the qualities of a scatterbrain: absent-minded, forgetful, easily distracted.

scatty

• adj. (slang, Britain) Scatterbrained; flighty.

silly

• adj. Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.
• adj. (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) Blessed, particularly.
• adj. (now chiefly Scotland and Northern England, rare) Pitiful, inspiring compassion, particularly.
• adj. (now rural Britain, rare) Simple, plain, particularly.
• adj. Mentally simple, foolish, particularly.
• adj. (cricket, of a fielding position) Very close to the batsman, facing the bowler; closer than short.
• adv. (now regional or colloquial) Sillily: in a silly manner.
• n. (with 'the') The class of silly people collectively.
• n. (colloquial) A silly person.
• n. (affectionate, gently pejorative) A term of address.
• n. (colloquial) A mistake.

stupid

• adj. Lacking in intelligence or exhibiting the quality of having been done by someone lacking in intelligence.
• adj. To the point of stupor.
• adj. (archaic) Characterized by or in a state of stupor; paralysed.
• adj. (archaic) Lacking sensation; inanimate; destitute of consciousness; insensate.
• adj. (slang) Amazing.
• adj. (slang) damn, annoying, darn.
• adv. (slang, dated) Extremely.
• n. A stupid person; a fool.
• n. (colloquial, uncountable) The state or condition of being stupid.

unadvisable

• adj. Inadvisable.
• adj. (archaic) Unwilling to take advice.
• adj. (archaic) Imprudent.

unadvised

• adj. Not advised.

unwise

• adj. Not wise; defective in wisdom; injudicious; indiscreet; foolish.

vacuous

• adj. Lacking meaningful content.
• adj. Showing a lack of thought or intelligence; vacant.

wacky

• adj. zany; eccentric.
• n. Alternative form of wacke.

whacky

• adj. Alternative spelling of wacky.

zany

• adj. Unusual and bizarre in a funny, comical way; outlandish; clownish.
• adj. Ludicrously or incongruously comical.
• n. (obsolete) A fool or clown, especially one whose business on the stage is to imitate foolishly the actions…
• v. (obsolete) To mimic foolishly.