Imbecility. Folly
Nouns
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want of intelligence etc. Intelligence, Wisdom, want of intellect etc. Intellect
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shadowness, silliness, foolishness etc. adj.
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imbecility, incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, weakness of intellect, clouded perception, poor head, apartments to let
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stupidity, stolidity
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hebetude, dull understanding, meanest capacity, shortsightedness
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incompetence etc. (unskillfulness) Unskillfulness. one's weak side, not one's strong point
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bias etc. Misjudgment
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infatuation etc. (insanity) Insanity. simplicity, puerility, babyhood
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dotage, anility, second childishness, fatuity
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idiocy, idiotism
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driveling. folly, frivolity, irrationality, trifling, ineptitude, nugacity, inconsistency, lip wisdom, conceit
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sophistry etc. Intuition. Sophistry [The absence of reasoning.] [False or vicious reasoning; show of reason.]
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giddiness etc. (inattention) Inattention
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eccentricity etc. Insanity
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extravagance etc. (absurdity) Absurdity
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rashness etc. Rashness. act of folly etc. Unskillfulness.
Verbs
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to be an imbecile etc. adj.
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have no brains, have no sense etc. Intelligence, Wisdom. trifle, drivel, radoter, dote
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ramble etc. (madness) Insanity
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play the fool, play the monkey, monkey around, fool around
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take leave of one's senses (insanity) Insanity
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not see an inch beyond one's nose
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stultify oneself etc. Unskillfulness
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talk nonsense etc. Absurdity.
Adjectives
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unintelligent [Applied to persons], unintellectual, unreasoning
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mindless, witless, reasoningless, brainless
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halfbaked
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having no head etc. Intelligence, Wisdom
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not bright etc. Intelligence, Wisdom
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inapprehensible. weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed, buffle headed, chuckle headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded
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beef headed, fat witted, fat-headed. weak-minded, feeble-minded
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dull minded, shallow minded, lack-brained
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rattle-brained, rattle headed
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half witted, lean witted, short witted, dull witted, blunt-witted, shallow-pated, clod-pated, addle-pated, addle-brained
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dim-sighted, short-sighted
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thick-skulled
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weak in the upper story. shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony
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dull, dull as a beetle
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stupid, heavy, insulse, obtuse, blunt, stolid, doltish
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asinine
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inapt etc. Unskillfulness
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prosaic etc. Dullness
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hebetudinous. childish, child-like
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infantine, infantile, babyish, babish
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puerile, anile
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simple etc. (credulous) Credulity
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old-womanish. fatuous, idiotic, imbecile, driveling
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blatant, babbling
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vacant
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sottish
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bewildered etc. Uncertainty. blockish, unteachable Boeotian, Boeotic
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bovine
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ungifted, undiscerning, unenlightened, unwise, unphilosophical
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apish
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simious. foolish, silly, senseless, irrational, insensate, nonsensical, inept
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maudlin. narrow-minded etc. Misjudgment
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bigoted etc. (obstinate) Obstinacy
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giddy etc. (thoughtless) Inattention
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rash etc. Rashness
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eccentric etc. (crazed) Insanity. [Applied to actions] foolish, unwise, injudicious, improper, unreasonable, without reason, ridiculous, absurd, idiotic, silly, stupid, asinine
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ill-imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised
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inconsistent, irrational, unphilosophical
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extravagant etc. (nonsensical) Absurdity
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sleeveless, idle
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pointless, useless etc. Inutility
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inexpedient etc. Inexpedience
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frivolous etc. (trivial) Unimportance.
Phrases
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a fool's bolt is soon shot" [Henry V.] clitellae bovi sunt impositae [Lat.] [Cicero]
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fools rush in where angels fear to tread" [Pope]
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the bookful blockhead, ignorantly read" [Pope]
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to varnish nonsense with the charms of sound" [Churchill].