folly 的定义
plural fol·lies for 2-6.
- the state or quality of being foolish; lack of understanding or sense.
- a foolish action, practice, idea, etc.; absurdity: the folly of performing without a rehearsal.
- a costly and foolish undertaking; unwise investment or expenditure.
- Architecture. a whimsical or extravagant structure built to serve as a conversation piece, lend interest to a view, commemorate a person or event, etc.: found especially in England in the 18th century.
- follies, a theatrical revue.
- Obsolete. wickedness; wantonness.
folly 近义词
nonsense, ridiculous idea
folly 的近义词 29 个
- absurdity
- craziness
- foolishness
- idiocy
- indiscretion
- lunacy
- madness
- recklessness
- silliness
- stupidity
- daftness
- fatuity
- imbecility
- impracticality
- imprudence
- inadvisability
- inanity
- irrationality
- obliquity
- rashness
- senselessness
- triviality
- unsoundness
- vice
- dottiness
- dumb thing to do
- dumb trick
- preposterousness
- witlessness
folly 的反义词 9 个
更多folly例句
- If there is one book that captures the Vietnam War in the sheer Homeric scale of its passion and folly, this book is it.
- The folly of inferring 364 days from just one seems obvious.
- Philpott, a reporter for Mother Jones, points to the nearby Imperial Valley in Southern California as an example of this folly.
- On a November afternoon programmed for football, it’s understandable to get lost in tradition and consider the NFL’s difficulty containing the virus to be inevitable follies.
- If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s the folly of assuming that extreme scenarios will never come to pass.
- It was not until after the Challenger accident that the folly of this approach was realized.
- Yeah, too many Democrats signed on to this hideous folly, but the war in Iraq was obviously a GOP production.
- But in the long term, Moscow can be made to regret its folly.
- In wisely sidestepping the hubristic folly of trying to sum up his own time, he achieved a sort of timelessness.
- Whatever the reason behind all this folly, the Georgian people have earned their right to some form of protection by the West.
- I hate to be long at my toilette at any time; but to delay much in such a matter while travelling is folly.
- Greater mischiefs happen often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.
- That he laughed at their folly, and went himself in the boat, ordering his men to take a strong cable along with them.
- I am ready Madam,—for I have sufficiently experienced the folly of my presuming to decline it.
- This new-found joy I long pursued in secret, afraid lest it should be discovered and despised as a folly.