Antonyms for fool
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1. foolnoun

   Synonyms:
   jester, joker

2. foolnoun

   Synonyms:
   gobshite

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1. fool

   Antonyms:
   disciple, learner, pupil, savant, scholar, student

   Synonyms:
   dunce, idiot, idler, ignoramus, illiterate person

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1. fool, sap, saphead, muggins, tomfoolnoun

   a person who lacks good judgment

   Synonyms:
   muggins, tomfool, gull, cosh, fall guy, mark, sap, mug, jester, sucker, soft touch, blackjack, saphead, patsy, chump, motley fool

2. chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mugnoun

   a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

   Synonyms:
   physiognomy, phiz, marking, jester, mug, motley fool, sucker, bell ringer, target, crisscross, sea gull, fall guy, score, smiler, sign, brand, countenance, grade, mugful, chump, mark, stigma, visage, kisser, home run, scratch, tomfool, gull, muggins, patsy, marker, sap, scrape, cross, print, scar, stain, bull's eye, lollipop, seagull, saphead, soft touch, all-day sucker

3. jester, fool, motley foolverb

   a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages

   Synonyms:
   sap, tomfool, mug, saphead, sucker, gull, fall guy, chump, patsy, jester, motley fool, mark, muggins, soft touch

4. fool, gull, befoolverb

   make a fool or dupe of

   Synonyms:
   dupe, fool around, arse around, dissipate, cod, shoot, put one over, slang, frivol away, fool away, put on, befool, take in, put one across, fritter away, fritter, gull, horse around

5. fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool awayverb

   spend frivolously and unwisely

   "Fritter away one's inheritance"

   Synonyms:
   dupe, shoot, scud, befool, sprout, hit, gull, slang, film, put on, snap, take in, put one across, take, break up, bourgeon, arse around, put one over, fool around, buck, shoot down, disperse, fritter, spread out, dart, frivol away, dash, burgeon forth, horse around, scoot, fritter away, charge, inject, germinate, cod, dissipate, scatter, photograph, blast, dispel, spud, flash, pip, pullulate, tear, fool away

6. gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one acrossverb

   fool or hoax

   "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!"

   Synonyms:
   earn, draw, take in, put one over, gather in, suck up, assimilate, invite, befool, catch, slang, imbibe, make, pull in, don, put on, tantalise, put one across, take, have, suck, adopt, view, rally, tease, assume, see, fool around, horse around, gain, fool away, fritter, ingest, realise, apply, ride, turn in, get into, sop up, watch, receive, fritter away, arse around, clear, razz, frivol away, gull, take up, soak up, tantalize, cod, dissipate, shoot, bring in, overhear, rag, mount, taunt, wear, dupe, realize, consume, absorb, collect, bait, twit, suck in

7. horse around, arse around, fool around, foolverb

   indulge in horseplay

   "Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!"; "The bored children were fooling about"

   Synonyms:
   loaf, fool around, arse around, shoot, dissipate, gull, frig around, frivol away, put one over, dupe, lounge around, arse about, waste one's time, loll around, put on, play around, bum, lounge about, put one across, fool away, befool, fritter away, slang, loll, bum around, bum about, horse around, fritter, take in, cod

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1. foolnoun

   Synonyms:
   idiot, imbecile, natural, simpleton, dolt, dunce, defective, witling, dotterel, driveler, blockhead, beetlehead, ninny, ignoramus, numskull, booby, clodpate, nincompoop, ass, wiseacre, dunderhead, halfwit, oaf, dullard, coot, mooncalf, zany, harlequin, buffoon, jester, merry-andrew, droll, clown, scaramouch

   Associated words:
   stultify, stultification

2. foolverb

   Synonyms:
   dupe, gull, delude, hoodwink, deceive, hoax, trick, beguile, victimize, cully, trifle, toy, dawdle

How to use fool in a sentence?

1. Larry Elder:

   I’m not somebody who pulls out the race card the way Barack Obama does, the way Al Sharpton does, the way CNN does, the way Black Lives Matter does, maybe it was just an idiot. Maybe it was just a fool. Maybe it was just someone who doesn’t like Larry Elder.

2. Samuel Butler:

   Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

3. Abraham Lincoln:

   'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

4. J. R. R. Tolkien:

   Fool of a Took!

5. Rudyard Kipling:

   And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.

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