Meaning of FOLLY
| Pronunciation: | | 'fâlee
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- [n] foolish or senseless behavior
- [n] a stupid mistake
- [n] the trait of acting stupidly or rashly
- [n] the quality of being rash and foolish
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| | Synonyms: | | betise, craziness, foolery, foolishness, foolishness, foolishness, imbecility, indulgence, stupidity, tomfoolery, unwiseness |
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| | Antonyms: | | wisdom, wiseness | | |
| | See Also: | | absurdity, buffoonery, caper, clowning, error, fatuity, fatuousness, fault, frivolity, frolic, gambol, harlequinade, indiscretion, injudiciousness, mistake, play, prank, romp, silliness, stupidity, trait | |
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| | Definition: | |  Folly
Lilian Eliot, a Boston Brahmin, struggles against the constraints of her social upbringing and the crashing boredom she experiences with the men in her milieu. The delicate balance of her life is abruptly shattered by her passion for Walter Vail, a young man about to go off to war; he is, however, not serious about her, and Lilian must content herself with Gilbert Finch, whom she marries. One day Walter returns and Lilian must choose between the comforts of the sterile, passionless life she knows so well and the freedom from the rigid expectations of that life. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fol"ly\, n.; pl. {Follies}. [OE. folie, foli, F. folie,
fr. fol, fou, foolish, mad. See {Fool}.]
1. The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity,
weakness, or derangement of mind.
2. A foolish act; an inconsiderate or thoughtless procedure;
weak or light-minded conduct; foolery.
What folly 'tis to hazard life for ill. --Shak.
3. Scandalous crime; sin; specifically, as applied to a
woman, wantonness.
[Achan] wrought folly in Israel. --Josh. vii.
15.
When lovely woman stoops to folly. --Goldsmith.
4. The result of a foolish action or enterprise.
It is called this man's or that man's ``folly,'' and
name of the foolish builder is thus kept alive for
long after years. --Trench.
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| | Related Terms: | | absurdity, absurdness, act of folly, asininity, battiness, blunder, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, daffiness, daftness, desipience, dottiness, dumb trick, dumbness, eccentricity, error, fatuity, fatuousness, faux pas, fluff, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, gaffe, giddiness, goof, goofiness, idiocy, imbecility, imprudence, inanity, indiscretion, ineptitude, insanity, irrationality, kookiness, lunacy, madness, mindlessness, mistake, niaiserie, nonsense, nugacity, nuttiness, obtuseness, preposterousness, queerness, rashness, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, silliness, sottise, stolidity, stolidness, stupid thing, stupidity, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triviality, unwise step, wackiness, weak-mindedness, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism |
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