Chapter Fluted to Forbidding of F by Soule's Synonymes

Food, n.

1. Aliment, nutriment, nutrition, sustenance, bread, nourishment, meat, provisions, victuals, viands, diet, regimen, fare, cheer, commons, pabulum, subsistence, rations.

2. [For cattle, etc.] Feed, fodder, forage, provender.

Fool, n.

1. Idiot, natural.

2. Dolt, witling, driveller, idiot, simpleton, ninny, nincompoop, blockhead. See dunce.

3. Buffoon, harlequin, droll, punch, antic, jester, zany, clown, merry-andrew, scaramouch, jack-pudding, pickle-herring.

Fool, v. n. Trifle, toy, play, jest, play the fool, play in the monkey, act like a fool.

Fool, v. a. Deceive, cheat, trick, dupe, gull, delude, circumvent, cozen, overreach, beguile, hoodwink, chouse, cully, impose upon.

Foolery, n.

1. Absurdity, nonsense, folly, foolishness.

2. Buffoonery, tomfoolery, mummery, foolish conduct.

Foolhardy, a. Rash, venturous, adventurous, venturesome, reckless, desperate, hot-headed, hot-brained, hair-brained, headlong, precipitate, madly rash.

Foolish, a.

1. Senseless, idiotic, silly, weak, daft, simple, irrational, insensate, shallow, brainless, witless, thick-skulled, buffle-headed, shallow-brained.

2. Unwise, unreasonable, absurd, ridiculous, nonsensical, ill-judged, preposterous, indiscreet, imprudent.

3. Idle, trivial, trifling, vain, childish, puerile, contemptible.

Foolishness, n.

1. Folly, silliness, imbecility, stupidity, fatuity, shallowness, dulness, doltishness.

2. Absurdity, extravagance, nonsense, imprudence, indiscretion.