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folly

/fol-ee/US // ˈfɒl i //UK // (ˈfɒlɪ) //

愚蠢,愚蠢的行为,愚蠢的,愚弄

Related Words

madness乱象,疯狂,混乱silliness愚蠢,愚蠢的行为,傻气,愚蠢行为craziness疯狂,疯癫,狂热,疯狂的absurdity荒诞性,荒谬性,荒唐,荒谬的事indiscretion失言,失言失语,失态,失言失态foolishness愚蠢的行为,愚蠢行为,愚昧,愚蠢recklessness鲁莽行事,鲁莽行为,鲁莽,罔顾后果idiocy白痴,白癡,白痴病,白话stupidity愚蠢的行为,愚蠢行为,愚蠢,愚昧lunacy疯子,痴呆症,癫痫,疯癫inanity虚无缥缈,荒唐,荒诞不经,荒诞fatuity脂肪性,肥胖症,肥沃性,脂肪含量vice恶习,副业,恶行,恶习习unsoundness不健全,不健全性,不健康,不健全的triviality小事一桩,微不足道,小事,微不足道的小事imprudence不谨慎,轻率,不慎,不慎重imbecility低能儿,低能,低能症,低能级impracticality不切实际,不切实际的,不现实,不切实际的情况irrationality不合理性,不合情理,无理取闹,不理性senselessness无感,无感觉,无知无觉,无知觉

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounnonsense, ridiculous idea
Forms: follies
Synonyms
absurdity荒诞性,荒谬性,荒唐,荒谬的事craziness疯狂,疯癫,狂热,疯狂的foolishness愚蠢的行为,愚蠢行为,愚昧,愚蠢idiocy白痴,白癡,白痴病,白话indiscretion失言,失言失语,失态,失言失态lunacy疯子,痴呆症,癫痫,疯癫madness乱象,疯狂,混乱recklessness鲁莽行事,鲁莽行为,鲁莽,罔顾后果silliness愚蠢,愚蠢的行为,傻气,愚蠢行为stupidity愚蠢的行为,愚蠢行为,愚蠢,愚昧daftness愚蠢的行为,笨拙,愚蠢行为,愚蠢fatuity脂肪性,肥胖症,肥沃性,脂肪含量imbecility低能儿,低能,低能症,低能级impracticality不切实际,不切实际的,不现实,不切实际的情况imprudence不谨慎,轻率,不慎,不慎重inadvisability不可取性,不宜,不可取,不可取的inanity虚无缥缈,荒唐,荒诞不经,荒诞irrationality不合理性,不合情理,无理取闹,不理性obliquity倾斜度,斜度,仄度,倾角rashness轻率,轻率性,冒失,冒失鬼senselessness无感,无感觉,无知无觉,无知觉triviality小事一桩,微不足道,小事,微不足道的小事unsoundness不健全,不健全性,不健康,不健全的vice恶习,副业,恶行,恶习习dottiness点点滴滴,小点,点状物,点滴dumb thing to do愚蠢的事,愚蠢的行为,愚蠢的事情,蠢事一桩dumb trick伎俩,骗人的把戏,哑谜,哑巴亏preposterousness荒谬的事情,荒诞不经,荒唐,荒谬witlessness无助,无奈,无奈之举,无能

Examples

  • 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.

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