Usually means: Task unlikely to succeed, pointless.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word fool's errand:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. fool's errand: Merriam-Webster
  2. fool's errand: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fool's errand: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fool's errand, fool's errand: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fool's errand: Vocabulary.com
  6. fool's errand: Wordnik
  7. fool's errand: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fool's errand: Wiktionary
  9. fool's errand: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Fool's errand, fool's errand, fools errand: Dictionary.com
  11. Fool's Errand (novel), Fool's errand, Fool's errand (disambiguation), The Fool's Errand: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. fool's errand: Rhymezone
  13. fools errand: FreeDictionary.org
  14. fool's errand: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. fool's errand: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fool's errand: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fool's errand)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic) A foolish undertaking, especially one that is purposeless, fruitless, nonsensical, or certain to fail.
▸ noun:  (idiomatic) Such an undertaking, assigned as a prank.


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