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(n)
Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality.
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(uncountable) The property of being stupid.
(uncountable) The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind.
(uncountable) The state of being crazy; madness; derangement
The quality of being unwise.
a stupid mistake
(adj)
Without intelligence.
(uncountable) Lack of intelligence or sense; extremely foolish behaviour.
The state of being insane; madness.
Very excited or enthusiastic.
A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.
(of a person or group of people) The state of being mad, insanity
That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
The quality or state of being indiscreet; lack of discretion
Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.
The condition of being uninformed or uneducated; lack of knowledge or information.
An error.
(v)
(intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
(intransitive) To leave.
(slang, mildly vulgar, uncountable) Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.
A Hebrew unit of liquid volume, about equal to 230 L or 60 gallons.
(uncountable) That which is perceived as silly or frivolous.
The state of being senseless; unsense.
(uncountable) The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
(uncountable) The quality or state of being imprudent; lack of prudence, caution, discretion or circumspection.
(uncountable) The state or condition of being nonsensical.
(uncountable) The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.
The quality of being inept.
The state or quality of being reckless or heedless, of taking unnecessary risks.
The property of being mindless.
The quality of state of being rash; inconsiderate or presumptuous haste
The state or quality of being ludicrous.
(uncountable) The quality or state of being irrational.
An inability to perform; a lack of competence; ineptitude.
The state of being witless; stupidity.
heedless disregard for the consequences of one's actions
(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being childish.
The state or condition of being brainless.
The state or essence of being a fool.
The quality of being tomfoolish.
The state, quality, or condition of being fool-hearted.
The quality of being foolable.
(uncountable) The state of being goofy.
The quality of being foolhardy.
The state or condition of being oafish; stupidity; dullness; folly.
The quality of being goofish.
(informal) The quality of being stupid or foolish.
(uncountable, rare) The quality or state of being stupid.
(uncountable) The quality of being frivolous.
(informal) The quality of being silly or foolish.
The state or condition of being foolproof.
Property of being daft.
Nonstandard form of frivolosity. [(uncountable) The quality of being frivolous.]
foolishness; idiocy
(colloquial) The quality of being silly or foolish.
Alternative spelling of silliness. [(uncountable) That which is perceived as silly or frivolous.]
The state of being feckless.
The quality of being a dolt or fool.
state of being frivolous
The quality of being idiotical.
The state or condition of being clottish; foolishness.
(uncountable) The state or quality of being slothful.
(uncountable, nonstandard, derogatory) Idiocy.
(countable, nonstandard, derogatory) An idiotic statement or action.
(uncountable) The characteristic of being ridiculous.
(uncountable) The state of being facetious
The quality of being a booby, foolishness.
(countable) A false statement, especially an intentional one; a lie.
Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity.
The quality of being fogeyish.
The state or condition of an oaf; oafishness.
The quality of being lackwitted.
(rare, nonstandard) Synonym of stupidity.
The state or condition of being knuckleheaded; foolishness or ineptitude.
The property of being fallacious.
The quality of being numbskulled; foolishness; idiocy.
The state or quality of being fallow.
The characteristic or quality of being foppish.
(rare) Synonym of idiocy.
The characteristic of being doltish.
(uncountable) The characteristic of being untrue.
(uncountable) The state of being wordish.
The state or quality of being ignorant; ignorance.
The state or condition of being froggy.
the state of being clownish
(uncountable) The quality of being futile or useless.
The state or condition of being unfounded.
The quality of being fuddled.
The quality of being halfwitted.
The property of being farcical.
Something fatuous; a stupid idea or utterance.
Quality of being feeble-minded; weak intellect.
(vulgar, informal, Canada, US) The state, quality, or condition of a dumbass.
The state or quality of being laughable; ludicrousness.
Obsolete form of slothfulness. [(uncountable) The state or quality of being slothful.]
(uncountable) The state of being whimsical.
The quality of being feeble-minded
An island off the east coast of Essex where the Thames estuary joins the North Sea.