EGAVE

fool

About 11.09 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
    You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.
  2. noun A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
  3. noun 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.
  4. noun Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
  5. noun Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
  6. noun An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.
  7. noun A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
  8. verb To trick; to deceive.

Similar words

muggins schlemiel dopey saphead anserine chump cockamamy tomfool foolish goofy

Often followed by

of to and the in who as you for

Word family

fooled fooling fools made a fool of himself

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