The meaning of Fool

verb

Cheat or fool.

Usage examples:

He bamboozled canada's largest banks in a massive counterfeit scam

verb

To trick or deceive someone, often by confusing them

Usage examples:

She was bamboozled into telling them her credit card number.

verb

To trick or deceive someone, often by confusing them

Usage examples:

Don't get bamboozled by all the jargon., she was bamboozled into telling them her credit card number.

verb

Charm or enchant (someone), often in a deceptive way.

Usage examples:

He beguiled the voters with his good looks

verb

To charm, attract, or interest, sometimes in order to deceive

Usage examples:

I had to show i was not beguiled by his good looks., a beguiling smile

noun

A stupid person.

Usage examples:

And then the stupid blockhead called jessie something i never want to hear repeated again.

noun

A stupid person

noun

An attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or is going to do something.

Usage examples:

The offer was denounced as a bluff

verb

Try to deceive someone as to one's abilities or intentions.

Usage examples:

He's been bluffing all along

adjective

Direct in speech or behaviour but in a good-natured way.

Usage examples:

A big, bluff, hearty man

noun

A japanese buddhist festival held annually in august to honour the dead.

Usage examples:

I think that o-bon - the ‘festival of the dead,’ upcoming in august - can be special this year.

noun

A ridiculous but amusing person; a clown.

Usage examples:

I am usually quite controlled, but i was irritated that i was forced to spend my time with these sy…

noun

A person who does silly things, sometimes intentionally, that make other people laugh

Usage examples:

He was not the buffoon that people said he was.

verb

Act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage.

Usage examples:

She always cheats at cards

noun

A person who behaves dishonestly in order to gain an advantage.

Usage examples:

Athletes who abide by the rules are up against cheats with a distinct advantage.

verb

To act in a way that is dishonest, or to make someone believe something that is not true in order to get something for yourself

Usage examples:

[ t ] the insurance companies were found to be cheating consumers., [ t ] they got cheated out of t…

noun

A foolish or easily deceived person.

Usage examples:

I was left feeling a bit of a chump

noun

A foolish or stupid person

Usage examples:

What a chump he was to quit his job.

noun

A lump of earth or clay.

Usage examples:

Frost is essential for breaking up clods into manageable sizes

noun

A comic entertainer, especially one in a circus, wearing a traditional costume and exaggerated make-up.

Usage examples:

A circus clown

verb

Behave in a comical or playful way.

Usage examples:

Harvey clowned around pretending to be a dog

noun

An entertainer who wears silly clothes and makes people laugh by performing tricks without speech

Usage examples:

The people running this school are a bunch of clowns., stop clowning around and get serious!

adjective

Causing or meant to cause laughter.

Usage examples:

A comic monologue

noun

A comedian.

Usage examples:

He is training as a stand-up comic

adjective

Making you want to laugh; amusing

Usage examples:

A comic actor/performance/writer

verb

Persuade (someone) to do or believe something by lying to them.

Usage examples:

I conned him into giving me your home number

noun

An instance of deceiving or tricking someone.

Usage examples:

The charter is a glossy public relations con

noun

A disadvantage of or argument against something.

Usage examples:

Borrowers have to weigh up the pros and cons of each mortgage offer

noun

A stupid person (used as a general term of abuse).

noun

An offensive word for a person who is considered to be very stupid or unpleasant

verb

Deliberately cause (someone) to believe something that is not true, especially for personal gain.

Usage examples:

I didn't intend to deceive people into thinking it was french champagne

verb

To persuade someone that something false is the truth; trick or fool

Usage examples:

Some parents try to deceive school officials and enroll their children in other districts., we shou…

verb

To use dishonest or illegal methods to get something or to make people believe that something is true when it is not

Usage examples:

These were fraudulent transactions aimed at deceiving creditors and investors., intention/intent to…

verb

Illegally obtain money from (someone) by deception.

Usage examples:

He used a second identity to defraud the bank of thousands of pounds

verb

To take or keep something illegally from someone by deceiving the person

Usage examples:

She is charged with defrauding the internal revenue service.

verb

To take money or goods illegally from someone by deceiving them

Usage examples:

Defraud sb of sth an architect and two surveyors defrauded a charity trust of £3.5m by invoicing it…

verb

Make (someone) believe something that is not true.

Usage examples:

Too many theorists have deluded the public

verb

To fool yourself into believing something is true because you want it to be true, when it is actually not true

Usage examples:

He’s deluding himself if he thinks he’s going to get that promotion.

noun

A stupid or silly person.

Usage examples:

This is what causes otherwise innocent young children to grow up into a population of stupid dimwits!

noun

A stupid person

Usage examples:

I've completely forgotten what i came in here for - i'm such a dimwit!, look where you're going, di…

noun

A stupid person.

Usage examples:

It's foolish to complain about uninteresting times, especially when one of your favourite curses is…

noun

A drug taken illegally for recreational purposes, especially cannabis.

Usage examples:

My dad caught me smoking dope

verb

Administer drugs to (a racehorse, greyhound, or athlete) in order to enhance or inhibit sporting performance.

Usage examples:

The horse was doped before the race

adjective

Administer drugs to (a racehorse, greyhound, or athlete) in order to inhibit or enhance sporting performance.

Usage examples:

The horse was doped before the race

verb

To cheat or be dishonest to someone who trusted you

verb

To trick or cheat someone who trusts you, for example, a business partner

Usage examples:

After recent events in congress, both democrats and republicans felt they had been double-crossed b…

noun

A slow or stupid person.

Usage examples:

He was caricatured as a dupe and a dullard

noun

A stupid person

noun

A model or replica of a human being.

Usage examples:

A waxwork dummy

verb

(chiefly in rugby and soccer) feign a pass or kick in order to deceive an opponent.

Usage examples:

Blanco dummied past a static defence

noun

A person who is slow at learning; a stupid person.

Usage examples:

He was baffled by arithmetic and they called him a dunce at school

noun

A person who is slow to learn or stupid, especially at school

verb

Deceive; trick.

Usage examples:

The newspaper was duped into publishing an untrue story

noun

A victim of deception.

Usage examples:

Men who were simply the dupes of their unscrupulous leaders

verb

Make a duplicate or copy of.

Usage examples:

How to dupe 35 mm slides on to 35 mm film

noun

A silly, foolish, or eccentric person.

noun

Cheap wine, especially when sold in large cartons.

Usage examples:

We sat in the kitchen drinking the rest of the goon

noun

A long-winged web-footed seabird with a raucous call, typically having white plumage with a grey or black mantle.

Usage examples:

I could go on and on about the many herons, egrets, gulls, terns, and various and sundry other spec…

verb

Fool or deceive (someone).

Usage examples:

He had been gulled into believing that the documents were authentic

noun

A person who is fooled or deceived.

Usage examples:

The title of this piece might seem to be no more than a comment on the ease with which the flats, m…

noun

A foolish or stupid person.

Usage examples:

Worst of all were the halfwits in the background, guffawing at every pathetic gag

noun

A mute character in traditional pantomime, typically masked and dressed in a diamond-patterned costume.

Usage examples:

Canio's character, pagliaccio, catches his wife with the young harlequin, played by the troupe's ju…

adjective

In varied colours; variegated.

Usage examples:

The custom cabinets look like bright circus blocks, the tile backsplash has a harlequin pattern, an…

noun

A humorous character in plays at the theatre, especially in the past, who wears brightly coloured clothes with a diamond pattern

noun

A humorous or malicious deception.

Usage examples:

The evidence had been planted as part of an elaborate hoax

verb

Trick or deceive (someone).

Usage examples:

I now have reason to believe that in unraveling a hoax i was hoaxed myself.

verb

Deceive or trick.

Usage examples:

Staff were hoodwinked into thinking the cucumber was a sawn-off shotgun

verb

To deceive or trick someone

Usage examples:

We were hoodwinked into believing that we had won a lot of money.

noun

A stupid person.

Usage examples:

I feel like an idiot who swallowed every lie i was told

noun

A foolish person, esp. someone who has done something stupid

Usage examples:

I felt like an idiot., whose idiotic idea was it to go camping?

noun

An ignorant or stupid person.

Usage examples:

Assume that your examiner is an ignoramus and explain everything to him

noun

A person who knows nothing

Usage examples:

I'm a complete ignoramus where computers are concerned.

noun

A stupid person.

Usage examples:

No matter what you call the mentally deficient, that term will come to be an insult when applied to…

adjective

Stupid; idiotic.

Usage examples:

Try not to make imbecile remarks

noun

A stupid person

noun

A stupid person.

Usage examples:

First, you had every right to break up with me because i was a complete jackass and a moron and you…

noun

A silly, stupid person

Usage examples:

Why is russ behaving like such a jackass?

noun

A professional joker or ‘fool’ at a medieval court, typically wearing a cap with bells on it and carrying a mock sceptre.

Usage examples:

The gray-furred child laughed, cavorting around the confused guards like a court jester in a mediev…

noun

(in earlier times) a man whose job was to tell jokes and make people laugh

Usage examples:

A court jester

noun

A person who is fond of joking.

Usage examples:

But the joke is on the joker, as any toddler could have told him.

noun

A person fond of making or telling jokes.

Usage examples:

He was an outgoing, fun-loving kid, the family jokester

noun

Someone who likes telling funny stories or making people laugh

noun

A silly or foolish person.

Usage examples:

If only she weren't such a lovesick loon

noun

A large diving waterbird with a sleek black or grey head, a straight pointed bill, and short legs set far back under the body; a diver.

Usage examples:

The first, innocuous shower stroked the lake's surface but, when the wind came up, the loons began …

verb

Act in a foolish or desultory way.

Usage examples:

He decided to loon around london

verb

Cause (someone) to have a wrong idea or impression.

Usage examples:

Fans believed they were misled about the reasons for the cancellation

verb

To cause someone to believe something that is not true

Usage examples:

We’re not misleading people, and we’re not pretending to be something we’re not.

verb

To cause someone to believe something that is not true

Usage examples:

The government has repeatedly misled the public, and we're here to protest., mislead sb about sth t…

noun

A stupid person.

Usage examples:

We can't let these thoughtless morons get away with mindless vandalism every weekend

noun

A stupid person

noun

A very stupid person

Usage examples:

Some moron smashed into the back of my car yesterday., [ as form of address ] you moron!

noun

A foolish or stupid person.

Usage examples:

And, as a reader recently suggested, it would allow movie watchers to gang up on the nincompoops wh…

noun

A foolish or stupid person

noun

A foolish and weak person.

Usage examples:

Except for a scant few, the characters in st. elmo's fire are all either weasels, deceptive clods o…

noun

A foolish person

noun

A silly or foolish person (often as a general term of abuse).

Usage examples:

I want nothing to do with that bunch of nitwits!

noun

A foolish or stupid person

verb

Deceive by greater ingenuity.

Usage examples:

Ray had outwitted many an opponent

noun

Women's baggy trousers gathered at the ankles.

Usage examples:

The women wear conservative peasant dress consisting of baggy pantaloons and head scarves.

noun

A stock male character in french pantomime, with a sad white-painted face, a loose white costume, and a pointed hat.

Usage examples:

As the clown pierrot, he embodies unrequited love.

noun

Another name for punch4 (sense 1 of the noun).

noun

A foolish or gullible person.

Usage examples:

Stop grinning at me like a simpleton

noun

A person without the usual ability to use reason and understand

verb

Use deception to deprive (someone) of money or possessions.

Usage examples:

A businessman swindled investors out of millions of pounds

noun

A fraudulent scheme or action.

Usage examples:

He is mixed up in a £10 million insurance swindle

verb

To cheat or trick someone in order to get money from them

Usage examples:

Swindle sb out of sth a web-based company swindled customers out of $15 million., victims of the sw…

phrasal verb

Provide with shelter

verb

To move something or someone from one place to another

Usage examples:

Please, take me with you!, it may rain, so take your umbrella., the suitcases were taken to madrid …

verb

To subtract one number or amount from another

Usage examples:

Take sth from sth you'll need to take $2,000 from the $8,000 to allow for tax., take sth/sb off (st…

noun

A cunning act or scheme intended to deceive or outwit someone.

Usage examples:

He's a double-dealer capable of any mean trick

verb

Cunningly deceive or outwit.

Usage examples:

Many people have been tricked by villains with false identity cards

adjective

Intended or used to deceive or mystify, or to create an illusion.

Usage examples:

A trick question

adjective

Amusingly unconventional and idiosyncratic.

Usage examples:

His zany humour

noun

A zany person.

Usage examples:

We are looking for the zany, the serious, the artistic and ridiculous.