fool
/fuːl/
A person with poor judgment or little intelligence; A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations; Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked
- plural
- fools
Meanings
- 1
A person with poor judgment or little intelligence
The king is a fool.
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You must be a fool.
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- 2
A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations
- 3
Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe
- 4
A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages)rare
- 5
Someone who derives pleasure from something specifiedrare
- 6
An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or manrare
- 7
A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jesterrare
- 8
A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or creamrare