Meaning

8 senses
  1. (derogatory)A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

    You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.

    The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.

    dumme Gans, Dummkopf, Narr

    балбе́сbalbés, болва́нbolván, деби́лdebíl

    ду́реньdúrenʹ, те́лепеньtélepenʹ, йо́лопjólop

    a person who lacks good judgment

  2. (historical)A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).

    Narr, Närrin, Eulenspiegel

    шутšut, скоморо́хskomoróx

    бла́зеньblázenʹ

  3. 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.

    der Narr

    дура́кdurák

  4. Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.

  5. (informal)Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.

    -narr

  6. (slang)An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.

  7. A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.

  8. A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.

    an apricot fool; a gooseberry fool

Examples

1142 sentences
  1. He is anything but a fool.

    Він хто завгодно, тільки не дурень.

    ruОн кто угодно, только не дурак.

    deEr ist alles andere als ein Narr.

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  2. I'm not going to fool myself.

    Я не маю наміру дурити себе.

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  3. I know Tom isn't a fool.

    Я знаю, що Том не дурень.

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  4. You can't fool me so easily.

    Ти не обдуриш мене так легко.

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  5. Did you think you could fool me?

    Ти думав, що можеш мене обудрити?

    ruТы думал, что можешь меня одурачить?

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
person with poor judgement or little intelligence:
jester:
Русский
By meaning 2
person with poor judgement or little intelligence:
jester:
Deutsch
By meaning 5
dessert:
person with poor judgement or little intelligence:
jester:
tarot card:
one who derives pleasure from something specified:

Origin

From Middle English fol (“fool”), from Old French fol (cf. modern French fou (“mad”)) from

From Middle English fol (“fool”), from Old French fol (cf. modern French fou (“mad”)) from Latin follis. Doublet of fals and follis. Displaced native Old English dwæs.

From French fouler (“to trample”).

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Forms

plural: fools
Singularfool
Pluralfools

regular

Synonyms

145 synonyms
person who has been made a fool of:markA2goatB2dupe
person who derives pleasure from something specified:fanA1
person who entertained a sovereign:jesterjoker
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

48 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • made a fool
  • a fool of
  • was a fool
  • able to fool
  • fool of himself
  • fool of yourself
  • a fool to
  • tried to fool
  • fool of myself
  • like a fool
  • such a fool
  • fooling around

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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