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Antonyms for foolery
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : foo-luh-ree |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfu lə ri |
- admiration
- approval
- care
- carefulness
- caution
- chore
- circumspection
- commendation
- compliment
- depression
- drudgery
- extreme
- flattery
- gloom
- intelligence
- judgment
- labor
- love
- melancholy
- misery
- pain
- possessions
- praise
- profession
- prudence
- respect
- sadness
- sense
- seriousness
- solemnity
- sorrow
- task
- thoughtfulness
- trouble
- truth
- understanding
- unhappiness
- wisdom
- wiseness
- woe
- work
Definition of foolery
Origin :- 1550s, from fool (n.) + -ery.
- As in monkey business : noun shenanigans
- As in play : noun amusement, entertainment
- As in poppycock : noun nonsense
- As in ridicule : noun contemptuous laughter at someone or something
- As in tomfoolery : noun nonsense
- As in craziness : noun foolishness
- As in imbecility : noun foolishness
- As in senselessness : noun foolishness
- As in foolishness : noun idiocy, nonsense
- As in fun : noun amusement, play
- A male—even such a male as Tibby—was enough to stop the foolery.
- Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster
- You don't make your case any better by this sort of foolery.
- Extract from : « Romance » by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer
- To wit, that a woman must needs be wed, and that otherwise she is but half a woman, and the like foolery.
- Extract from : « Clare Avery » by Emily Sarah Holt
- If he met the bairns coming from school, the Glen rang with the foolery.
- Extract from : « Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers » by Ian Maclaren
- So foolery was exchanged for foolery, and the thing throve well.
- Extract from : « Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) » by James Athearn Jones
- It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of gain-giving,66 as would, perhaps, trouble a woman.
- Extract from : « Hamlet » by William Shakespeare
- Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.
- Extract from : « Familiar Quotations » by John Bartlett
- His answer was, He did remove it for two or three days, till this foolery was over.
- Extract from : « State Trials, Political and Social » by Various
- He was always ready for foolery with the girls, but he was not the sort to go too far.
- Extract from : « Crooked Trails and Straight » by William MacLeod Raine
- Now I feel it is my duty to have no hand in such a piece of foolery.
- Extract from : « The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Volume Two » by Abraham Lincoln
Synonyms for foolery
- absurdity
- absurdness
- antics
- babble
- badinage
- balderdash
- ball
- baloney
- banter
- big time
- blast
- brainlessness
- buffoonery
- bull
- bunk
- burlesque
- caper
- caricature
- carrying-on
- celebration
- chaff
- cheer
- claptrap
- clowning
- clowning around
- comeback
- contempt
- craziness
- dalliance
- delight
- derision
- dig
- disdain
- disobedience
- disparagement
- disport
- distraction
- diversion
- drivel
- dumb trick
- empty talk
- enjoyment
- entertainment
- escapade
- farce
- festivity
- flakiness
- folly
- fool trick
- foolery
- fooling around
- foolishness
- frisk
- frolic
- fun
- funny business
- gaiety
- gambol
- game
- gaming
- gibberish
- gibe
- giddiness
- good time
- grins
- hanky-panky
- happiness
- high jinks
- hogwash
- hokey-pokey
- holiday
- hooey
- horse feathers
- horseplay
- hot air
- humor
- idiocy
- imbecility
- impracticality
- imprudence
- inanity
- indiscretion
- insanity
- insensibility
- irony
- irrationality
- irresponsibility
- jab
- jeer
- jest
- jesting
- jive
- jocularity
- joke
- joking
- jollity
- joy
- junketing
- kidding around
- lark
- laughter
- leer
- living it up
- ludicrousness
- lunacy
- madness
- malarkey
- match
- merriment
- merrymaking
- mirth
- misbehavior
- mischief
- mischief-making
- mistake
- mockery
- monkeyshine
- mordancy
- mumbo jumbo
- needling
- nonsense
- nuttiness
- palaver
- parody
- parting shot
- pastime
- persiflage
- picnic
- playfulness
- pleasure
- poppycock
- prank
- prattle
- preposterousness
- put-on
- putdown
- raillery
- rally
- razz
- recreation
- rejoicing
- relaxation
- rib
- ridiculousness
- riot
- roast
- romp
- romping
- rubbish
- sarcasm
- sardonicism
- satire
- scorn
- senselessness
- shenanigans
- silliness
- slam
- sneer
- solace
- sport
- sportiveness
- stupidity
- swipe
- taunt
- taunting
- teasing
- tomfoolery
- tommyrot
- trash
- travesty
- treat
- twaddle
- unreasonableness
- unwiseness
- wackiness
- weakness
- whoopee
- witlessness
- zaniness
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