Foolish:
1. Lacking good sense or judgment; silly: “foolish remarks.’’
2. Resulting from stupidity or misinformation; ill-advised; unwise: “a foolish decision.”
3. Devoid of meaning or coherence; ridiculous; inane: “a foolish grin.”
4. Abashed; embarrassed: “I feel foolish telling you this.”
Synonyms: Foolish, silly, fatuous, absurd, preposterous, ridiculous, ludicrous.
These adjectives are applied to what is devoid of wisdom or good sense.
“Foolish,” the least emphatic or derogatory, implies poor judgment in a person or general lack of wisdom or soundness in concepts or entities.
“Silly’ suggests what lacks point, purpose or semblance of intellectual content.
“Fatuous” intensifies the idea of emptiness or inanity and often also implies, in persons, smugness of lack or awareness of one’s stupidity.
“Absurd, together with the remaining terms, implies obvious departure from truth, nature, reason or common sense.
“Preposterous” suggests what is so far from reason or sense that it seems a travesty of them and does not merit consideration.
“Ridiculous” refers to what inspires derision and contempt because of its absurdity.
“Ludicrous” applies to what causes scornful laughter.