fool
/ful/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.29 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
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.
noun
Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
noun
A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
Example Sentences
- "You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking."
- "The village fool threw his own shoes down the well."
- "Erasmus, [...] saide wiselie that experience is the common scholehouse of foles, and ill men: Men of witte and honestie, be otherwise instructed."
- "No man is always a fool, every man is sometimes."
- "'If I coloured at all, Mr Edward,' said Joe, 'which I didn't know I did, it was to think I should have been such a fool as ever to have any hope of her. She’s as far out of my reach as—as Heaven is.'"
- "If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ful/
- British English: /fuːl/
Usage
Inflected Forms
fools (plural)
fools (present, singular)
fooling (participle, present)
fooled (participle, past)
fooled (past)
fooler (comparative)
more fool (comparative)
foolest (superlative)
most fool (superlative)