foolish

adj
/ˈfuː.lɪʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English folisch; equivalent to fool + -ish.

  1. inherited from folisch

Definitions

  1. Lacking good sense or judgement as a general trait

    Lacking good sense or judgement as a general trait; unwise; stupid.

    • His wife and the neighbours lamented over his strange conduct, his dullness and melancholy, and began to think that he was grown foolish.
  2. Not based on good sense or judgement

    Not based on good sense or judgement; as a fool would do or conclude.

  3. Resembling or characteristic of a fool.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at foolish. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at foolish. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at foolish

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA