Antonyms for tomfool

Grammar : Adj, noun

Spell : tom-fool

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɒmˈful

Definition of tomfool

Origin : "buffoon, clown," 1640s, from Middle English Thom Foole, personification of a mentally deficient man (mid-14c.), see Tom + fool (n.).

adj foolish
noun fool

Example sentences :

That tomfool letter we sent ruined whatever chance I had left.
Extract from : « Cabbages and Kings » by O. Henry

Then aloud in Spanish: "What's the good of all that tomfool business?"
Extract from : « Lone Pine » by R. B. (Richard Baxter) Townshend

Go and fetch the money and the tomfool paint-box thing that you say he had it in.
Extract from : « "Carrots:" » by Mrs. Molesworth

And think of that tomfool of a Tommy-Bill-beg sending the man to me.
Extract from : « She's All the World to Me » by Hall Caine

"I'll stop all night in your tomfool wood and up your tomfool trees," he said.
Extract from : « The Trees of Pride » by G.K. Chesterton

“If she wa'n't dead and gone, I wouldn't believe one word of such a tomfool story,” said she, with vicious energy.
Extract from : « The Shoulders of Atlas » by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

If Dalrymple really meant what he had said, and would stick to it, she need not mind being called a tomfool by her mother.
Extract from : « The Last Chronicle of Barset » by Anthony Trollope

Dorcas objected to this name, but Tabitha remarked sagely that at any rate it was better than "Tomfool."
Extract from : « Smith and the Pharaohs, and Other Tales » by Henry Rider Haggard

This ought to be read before all the tomfool peace societies and anti-imperialist societies of the present-day.
Extract from : « Letters to His Children » by Theodore Roosevelt

If anyone asks, youve been for a spin with a tomfool skipper who didnt know dirty weather when he saw it.
Extract from : « Twos and Threes » by G. B. Stern

Synonyms for tomfool

Based on : Thesaurus.com - Gutenberg.org - Dictionary.com - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019