adjective
definition
(of a person, an action, etc.) Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
definition
Resembling or characteristic of a fool.
Examples of foolish in a Sentence
It was a foolish thing to say.
It had been foolish to climb into the car with him.
Perhaps it was a foolish thing to do.
No, you're just foolish enough to jump from the buggy.
How foolish she is!
He does not discuss the possibility of successful resistance to the Chaldeans; he simply assumes that the attempt is foolish and wicked, and, like other prophets, he identifies his political programme with the will of God.
I would be foolish to let you free within my walls.
She is the one from Surry and her name is listed as Elizabeth in the phone book but they call her Betty, or Becky or some foolish diminutive.
It was a foolish thing to do and he didn't like it.
Maybe we're acting precipitously; as foolish as a kindergartener doing tumble saults.
She hadn't been foolish; she'd been desperate.
Soc. for 1878, points out that this act meant something to the mob who followed the rebel chief, and was not a piece of foolish acting.
You can be confident meeting someone online isn't unusual or foolish - in many cases, it just makes sense to reach into a wider dating pool.
Yes, I'm willing to admit, my last venture was a foolish mistake.
But an impatient outburst of the insurgents and a foolish attempt to seize hull and Scarborough gave Henry an excuse for repudiating the concessions made in his name.
I am guessing that part of your girlfriend's hurt comes more from feeling foolish, jealous and betrayed.
Perhaps it was foolish thing to do.
Does this foolish woman think I believe for a minute she'll sacrifice her husband and this other fool for her life?
How would a human who lived a fraction of one life judge my actions as foolish?
I also felt a bit foolish that I had not kept up with the changes in the security.
If he had not been so utterly foolish, nothing could have prevented your going to the hospital.
The military response is not just politically foolish but profoundly wicked.
Feeling rather foolish at the selfish nature of my grief I stood to inspect the panel.
And--pardon me for the foolish question--but, are you all invisible?
To be optimistic is to be foolish; I choose to look at things more realistically.
Waste was foolish at best and in some societies, sinful.
You'll find poems about a straying boyfriend, yearning for love, foolish mistakes, and the power of attraction.
With so much focus on popularity, many teens are willing to do a lot to be popular, no matter how foolish.
You'll likely look back at your hidden friendships as foolish.
When we have been made to feel foolish or treated poorly, wanting to get our own back is a normal response.
In the end, both the ESRB and Rockstar North, the publisher, looked patentedly foolish as Rockstar lost thousands and thousands of dollars in a massive product recall.
Hazarding a guess as to the other components would be a foolish endeavor.
They are afraid of saying something considered foolish by others and are deeply hurt by any disapproval from others.
The Foolish site reminds users that the results are future savings, when money is less valuable.
Perhaps the "foolish" was so hurtful she won't forgive you.
It was a foolish thing to say, given the circumstances, but she was up to her eyeballs with this lingering bad mood.
Past the fencing was a sandy stretch where the landmines awaited those foolish enough to cross.
She suddenly found these thoughts foolish.
Alex wouldn't think it was foolish or childish.
I don't think you're foolish, but I'll leave when I wish and no sooner.
Taran knew instinctively what could cause such a reaction from Sirian, and it involved the foolish woman.
Weak, foolish and dissolute, she made her reign one long scandal, which reduced the kingdom to the lowest depths of degradation.
In 1829 he defeated a foolish attempt of the Spaniards to reassert their authority in Mexico.
When, however, Ferdinand was elected king of Aragon, and the regency remained in the hands of the king's mother, Constance, daughter of John of Gaunt, a foolish and dissolute woman, Alvaro became a very important person.
No one will be so foolish or so unjust as to hold Leo XIII.
It would be foolish, nay, rash, to deny its importance."
The wild and foolish agitation on this question only served to confirm the impression that the Egyptians were not yet fit to govern themselves.
To the last he endeavoured to avoid a rupture with France even if he broke with Sweden; but he could not restrain for ever the foolish impetuosity of his own sovereign, Christian V., and his fall in the beginning of 1676 not only, as he had foreseen, involved Denmark in an unprofitable war, but, as his friend and disciple, Jens Juel, well observed, relegated her henceforth to the humiliating position of an international catspaw.
The idea that Alfred, during his retreat at Athelney, was a helpless fugitive rests upon the foolish legend of the cakes.
Therefore he seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear.