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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | catastrophe |
| Synonyms: | abortion, blunder, botched situation, breakdown, debacle, disaster, dumb thing to do, dumb trick, embarrassment, error, failure, farce, flap, flop, mess, miscarriage, route, ruin, screwup, stunt, washout |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, blessing, boon, miracle, success, wonder |
| Main Entry: | foolishness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idiocy, nonsense |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, absurdness, bunk, carrying-on, claptrap, craziness, dumb trick, folly, fool trick, foolery, horse feathers, impracticality, imprudence, inanity, indiscretion, insanity, insensibility, irrationality, irresponsibility, ludicrousness, lunacy, mistake, poppycock, preposterousness, rubbish*, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, tommyrot, twaddle, unreasonableness, unwiseness, weakness, witlessness |
| Antonyms: | care, carefulness, caution, circumspection, prudence, sense, seriousness, thoughtfulness, wiseness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imbecility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foolishness |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, absurdness, bunk, carrying-on, claptrap, craziness, dumb trick, folly, fool trick, foolery, horse feathers, idiocy, impracticality, imprudence, inanity, indiscretion, insanity, insensibility, irrationality, irresponsibility, ludicrousness, lunacy, madness, mistake, nonsense, poppycock, preposterousness, rubbish*, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, tomfoolery, tommyrot, twaddle, unreasonableness, unwiseness, weakness*, witlessness, zaniness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | senselessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foolishness |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, absurdness, bunk, carrying-on, claptrap, craziness, dumb trick, folly, fool trick, foolery, horse feathers, idiocy, imbecility, impracticality, imprudence, inanity, indiscretion, insanity, insensibility, irrationality, irresponsibility, ludicrousness, lunacy, madness, mistake, nonsense, poppycock, preposterousness, rubbish*, silliness, stupidity, tomfoolery, tommyrot, twaddle, unreasonableness, unwiseness, weakness*, witlessness, zaniness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Imbecility. Folly |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
want of intelligence, want of intellect [more]; shadowness, silliness, foolishness; imbecility, incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, clouded perception, poor head, apartments to let; stupidity, stolidity; hebetude, dull understanding, meanest capacity, shortsightedness; incompetence (unskillfulness)., one's weak side; bias; infatuation (insanity)., simplicity, puerility, babyhood; dotage, anility, second childishness, fatuity; idiocy, idiotism; driveling., folly, frivolity, irrationality, trifling, ineptitude, nugacity, inconsistency, lip wisdom, conceit; sophistry; giddiness (inattention); eccentricity; extravagance (absurdity); rashness., act of folly., be imbecile; have no brains, have no sense [more]., trifle, drivel, radoter, dote; ramble (madness); play the fool, play the monkey; take leave of one's senses; not see an inch beyond one's nose; stultify oneself; talk nonsense.
-adjectives
[Applied to persons] unintelligent, unintellectual, unreasoning; mindless, witless, reasoningless, brainless; halfbaked; having no head; not bright; inapprehensible., weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed, buffle headed, chuckle headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded; beef headed, fat witted, fat-headed., weak-minded, feeble-minded; dull minded, shallow minded, lack-brained; rattle-brained, rattle headed; half witted, lean witted, short witted, dull witted, blund-witted, shallow-pated, clod-pated, addle-pated; dim-sighted, short-sighted; thick-skulled; weak in the upper story., shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony; dull, dull as a beetle; stupid, heavy, insulse, obtuse, blunt, stolid, doltish; asinine; inapt; prosaic; hebetudinous., childish; infantine, infantile, babyish, babish; puerile, anile; simple (credulous)., fatuous, idiotic, imbecile, driveling; blatant, babbling; vacant; sottish; bewildered., blockish, unteachable, Boeotian, Boeotic; bovine; ungifted, undiscerning, unenlightened, unwise, unphilosphical; apish; simious., foolish, silly, senseless, irrational, insensate, nonsensical, inept; maudlin.
-phrases
Davus sum non [Edipus]; "a fool's bolt is soon shot" [Henry V.] clitellae bovi sunt impositae [Cicero]; "fools rush in where angels fear to tread" [Pope]; il n'a ni bouche ni eperon; "the bookful blockhead, ignorantly read" [Pope];
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| Antonyms: | intelligence, wisdom |
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