Foolish
Crossword Clue & Answers

29 November 2021
Last seen in: Irish Independent - Simple

We found 36 answers for the crossword clue 'Foolish', the most recent of which was seen in the Irish Independent - Simple.

This clue looks to be a standard clue as in it's a NON-CRYPTIC crossword based on the publications in which we have recently seen it.

We have given Foolish a popularity rating of 'Very Common' because it has featured in a numerous crossword publications and has multiple answers.

As well as being a clue we've also seen Foolish as an answer itself some 53 times.

Foolish is a single word clue made up of 7 letters.

We most recently saw this clue in 'Irish Independent - Simple' on Monday, 29 November 2021 with the answer being FATUOUS, but the most popular answer for this clue is SILLY.

We've seen this clue in the following publications:

• Irish Independent - Simple - 29 Nov 2021
• The Daily Mail Smallest Hardest - 14 Nov 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 9 Nov 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 26 Oct 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 22 Oct 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 7 Oct 2021
• Irish Independent - Simple - 24 Sep 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 30 Aug 2021
• Evening Standard Easy Crossword - 16 Aug 2021
• Evening Standard Quick Crossword - 29 Jul 2021

Definitions and usage

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• Devoid of good sense or judgment; "foolish remarks"; "a foolish decision"
• Having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"

Crossword Answers

3 Letters

MAD
Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure"

4 Letters

DAFT
Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"

DOPY
Having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"

5 Letters

APISH
Being or given to servile imitation

CRAZY
Affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"

DIPPY

DOPEY
Having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"

EMPTY
A container that has been emptied; "return all empties to the store"

GOONY
A variety of albatross with black feet

GOOSY
Having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"

INANE
Devoid of intelligence

INEPT
Revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable"

JERKY
Meat (especially beef) cut in strips and dried in the sun

POTTY
A receptacle for urination or defecation in the bedroom

SAPPY
Abounding in sap; "sappy maple trees"; "sappy kindling wood"

SILLY
Inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett

THICK
(used informally) stupid

6 Letters

ABSURD
Inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman

GOOSEY
Having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"

STUPID
In a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock; "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"; "was stupid from fatigue"

UNWISE
Not appropriate to the purpose

7 Letters

ASININE
Devoid of intelligence

FATUOUS
Devoid of intelligence

IDIOTIC
Insanely irresponsible; "an idiotic idea"

WITLESS
(of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment

8 Letters

ANSERINE
Of or resembling a goose

HEADLESS
Not using intelligence

9 Letters

GOOSELIKE
Having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books"

IMPRUDENT
Not prudent or wise; "very imprudent of her mother to encourage her in such silly romantic ideas"; "would be imprudent for a noneconomist to talk about the details of economic policy"- A.M.Schlesinger

MISGUIDED
Wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment; "well-meaning but misguided teachers"; "a mistaken belief"; "mistaken identity"

SENSELESS
(of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment

10 Letters

ADDLEPATED
Stupid and confused; "blathering like the addlepated nincompoop that you are"; "a confused puddingheaded, muddleheaded fellow"- Isaac Sterne

11 Letters

COCKBRAINED

EMPTYHEADED

HAREBRAINED
Very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"

NONSENSICAL
Having no intelligible meaning; "nonsense syllables"; "a nonsensical jumble of words"