Antonyms for wisdom
ˈwɪz dəmwis·dom

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1. wisdomnoun

   Antonyms:
   foolishness, folly

   Synonyms:
   sagacity

2. wisdomnoun

   An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.

   Antonyms:
   folly, foolishness

   Synonyms:
   sagacity

3. wisdomnoun

   A piece of wise advice.

   Antonyms:
   foolishness, folly

   Synonyms:
   sagacity

4. wisdomnoun

   The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.

   Antonyms:
   folly, foolishness

   Synonyms:
   sagacity

5. wisdomnoun

   The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained.

   Antonyms:
   folly, foolishness

   Synonyms:
   sagacity

6. wisdomnoun

   The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.

   Antonyms:
   foolishness, folly

   Synonyms:
   sagacity

7. wisdomnoun

   The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.

   Synonyms:
   sagacity

   Antonyms:
   foolishness, folly

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1. wisdom

   Enlightenment, erudition, information, knowledge, learning, and skill are acquired, as by study or practise. Insight, judgment, profundity or depth, reason, sagacity, sense, and understanding are native qualities of mind, tho capable of increase by cultivation. The other qualities are on the border-line. Wisdom has been defined as "the right use of knowledge," or "the use of the most important means for attaining the best ends," wisdom thus presupposing knowledge for its very existence and exercise. Wisdom is mental power acting upon the materials that fullest knowledge gives in the most effective way. There may be what is termed "practical wisdom" that looks only to material results; but in its full sense, wisdom implies the highest and noblest exercise of all the faculties of the moral nature as well as of the intellect. Prudence is a lower and more negative form of the same virtue, respecting outward and practical matters, and largely with a view of avoiding loss and injury; wisdom transcends prudence, so that while the part of prudence is ordinarily also that of wisdom, cases arise, as in the exigencies of business or of war, when the highest wisdom is in the disregard of the maxims of prudence. Judgment, the power of forming decisions, especially correct decisions, is broader and more positive than prudence, leading one to do, as readily as to refrain from doing; but judgment is more limited in range and less exalted in character than wisdom; to say of one that he displayed good judgment is much less than to say that he manifested wisdom. Skill is far inferior to wisdom, consisting largely in the practical application of acquired knowledge, power, and habitual processes, or in the ingenious contrivance that makes such application possible. In the making of something perfectly useless there may be great skill, but no wisdom. Compare ACUMEN; ASTUTE; KNOWLEDGE; MIND; PRUDENCE; SAGACIOUS; SKILFUL.

   Compare synonyms for ABSURD; IDIOCY.

   Antonyms:
   absurdity, error, fatuity, folly, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, imprudence, indiscretion, miscalculation, misjudgment, nonsense, senselessness, silliness, stupidity

   Synonyms:
   attainment, depth, discernment, discretion, enlightenment, erudition, foresight, information, insight, judgment, judiciousness, knowledge, learning, prescience, profundity, prudence, reason, reason, reasonableness, sagacity, sense, skill, understanding

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1. wisdom

   Antonyms:
   ignorance, illiterateness, sciolism, indiscernment, injudiciousness, folly, imprudence, darkness, empiricism, smattering, inacquaintance

   Synonyms:
   knowledge, erudition, learning, enlightenment, attainment, information, discernment, judgment, sagacity, prudence, light

Matched Categories

1. • Book
   • Cognitive Content
   • Good
   • Know-how
   • Trait

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. wisdomnoun

   accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment

   Antonyms:
   folly, foolishness, unwiseness

   Synonyms:
   sapience, wiseness, soundness

2. wisdom, wisenessnoun

   the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight

   Antonyms:
   foolishness, folly, unwiseness

   Synonyms:
   sapience, wiseness, soundness

3. wisdom, sapiencenoun

   ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight

   Antonyms:
   unwiseness, folly, foolishness

   Synonyms:
   sapience, wiseness, soundness

4. wisdom, wiseness, soundnessnoun

   the quality of being prudent and sensible

   Antonyms:
   folly, unwiseness, foolishness

   Synonyms:
   firmness, sapience, wiseness, soundness

5. Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdomnoun

   an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC

   Antonyms:
   folly, foolishness, unwiseness

   Synonyms:
   sapience, wiseness, soundness

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1. wisdomnoun

   Synonyms:
   lore, learning, sapience, erudition, knowledge, enlightenment

How to use wisdom in a sentence?

1. Confucius:

   By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

2. Proverb:

   Great doubts deep wisdom, small doubts little wisdom.

3. C. C. Colton:

   Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom. When we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and will serve us again. But if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought, but borrowed it.

4. Sorin Cerin:

   To be beyond yourself is the gate to wisdom.

5. Wesley D'Amico:

   Wisdom teaches you to see what the eyes cannot see.

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