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F___ is used to describe an action or person that is not at all sensible and shows a lack of good judgment.Fool is used to describe an action or person that is not at all sensible and shows a lack of good judgment.
What a damn fool thing to do!
What can that fool guard be thinking of?
word fool
full-definition
noun
If you call someone a fool, you are indicating that you think they are not at all sensible and show a lack of good judgment.
'You fool!' she shouted.
He'd been a fool to get involved with her!
In the courts of kings and queens in medieval Europe, the fool was the person whose job was to do silly things in order to make people laugh .
Fool is a dessert made by mixing soft cooked fruit with whipped cream or with custard.
...gooseberry fool.
adjective
Fool is used to describe an action or person that is not at all sensible and shows a lack of good judgment.
What a damn fool thing to do!
What can that fool guard be thinking of?
verb
If someone fools you, they deceive or trick you.
Art dealers fool a lot of people.
Don't be fooled by his appearance.
They tried to fool you into coming after us.
If you say that a person is fooling with something or someone, you mean that the way they are behaving is likely to cause problems .
What are you doing fooling with such a staggering sum of money?
He kept telling her that here you did not fool with officials.
inflections foolsfoolingfooledberk
cefr-level B2

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b2

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