Synonyms of the word tomfool


TOMFOOLFOOL - MUGGINS - SAP - SAPHEAD - SIMPLE - SIMPLETON

tomfool

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

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.

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…

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.

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.

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