FOLLY meaning: Lack of good sense; foolishness

We found 35 dictionaries that define the word folly:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

folly: Merriam-Webster.com
folly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
folly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
folly: Collins English Dictionary
folly: Vocabulary.com
Folly, folly: Wordnik
folly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
folly: Wiktionary
folly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
folly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
folly: Infoplease Dictionary
Folly, folly: Dictionary.com
folly: Online Etymology Dictionary
folly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Folly (allegory), Folly (band), Folly (disambiguation), Folly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Folly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
folly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
folly: Rhymezone
folly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
folly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Folly: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
folly: Free Dictionary
folly: Mnemonic Dictionary
Folly: The Word Detective
folly: Dictionary/thesaurus
folly: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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folly: Encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

folly: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality.
▸ noun:  Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.
▸ noun:  (architecture) A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.
▸ verb:  (dialectal) To follow.

Opposite:

wisdom, prudence, sense, sagacity, reason

Types:

hubris, naivete, arrogance, ignorance, foolishness, recklessness, imprudence, indiscretion, more...

Phrases:

sewards folly, Seward's Folly, Almayer's Folly, folly tower, In Praise of Folly, more...

Adjectives:

own, such, human, great, sheer, mere, utter, criminal, youthful, extreme, pure

Colors:

crimson, scarlet, vermilion, cerulean, chartreuse, more...

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