Idiot

noun

1. A scatterbrained or stupid person

noun

1. A foolish or stupid person

   "… once their business is over [clients] go right back to thinking you're either a crook or a moron. Realty is not a friendly business. It only seems to be."

2. A person affected with mild intellectual disability

noun

1. A person lacking in judgment or prudence

   "Only a fool would ride a motorcycle without wearing a helmet."

2. A retainer see retainer formerly kept in great households to provide casual entertainment and commonly dressed in motley with cap, bells, and bauble
3. One who is victimized or made to appear foolish dupe

   "History has made fools of many rash prophets."

4. A person lacking in common powers of understanding or reason
5. One with a marked propensity or fondness for something

   "a dancing fool"

6. A cold dessert of pureed fruit mixed with whipped cream or custard

adjective

1. Foolish, silly

   "barking its fool head off"

verb

1. To behave foolishly

   "told the children to stop their fooling"

2. To meddle, tamper, or experiment especially thoughtlessly or ignorantly

   "Don't fool with that drill."

3. To play or improvise a comic role
4. To speak in jest joke

   "I was only fooling"

5. To contend or fight without serious intent or with less than full strength toy

   "a dangerous man to fool with"

6. to behave foolishly
7. to meddle, tamper, or experiment especially thoughtlessly or ignorantly
8. to play or improvise a comic role
9. To make a fool of deceive
10. Infatuate
11. To spend on trifles or without advantage fritter
12. to behave foolishly
13. to meddle, tamper, or experiment especially thoughtlessly or ignorantly
14. to play or improvise a comic role

verb

1. To behave in a way that is not very serious

   "When it comes to safety, we don't fool around."

2. To engage in casual sexual activity

   "She found out that her partner had been fooling around on her. =having sex with someone else"

3. to behave in a way that is not very serious; often, specifically : to spend time idly, aimlessly, or frivolously
4. to engage in casual sexual activity

idiomatic phrase

1. To use or do (something) in a way that is not very serious

   "I'm not really a painter; I just like to fool around with paints."

2. To handle or interact with (something) in a careless or foolish way to meddle, tamper, or experiment with (something) especially thoughtlessly or ignorantly

   "Don't fool around with that drill."

3. To have sex with (someone who is not one's spouse or regular partner)

   "His partner discovered that he was fooling around with his co-worker."

noun

1. A needless or profitless endeavor

   ""No, no. You forced me into visiting him last year, and promised, if I went to see him, he should marry one of my daughters. But it ended in nothing, and I will not be sent on a fool's errand again.""

noun

1. Pyrite

noun

1. A state of delusory happiness

noun

1. A poisonous European weed (Aethusa cynapium) of the carrot family that resembles parsley and is naturalized in the northern U.S. and southern Canada

idiom

1. Used to describe a person as foolish