Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Fool

Nouns
  • fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling, dizzard, donkey, ass
  • ninny, ninnyhammer
  • chowderhead, chucklehead
  • dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby, hoddy-doddy, noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy, owl
  • goose, goosecap
  • imbecile
  • gaby
  • radoteur, nincompoop, badaud, zany
  • trifler, babbler
  • pretty fellow
  • natural, niais. child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop. oaf, lout, loon, lown, dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard, block, put, stick, stock, numps, tony. bull head, dunderhead, addlehead, blockhead, dullhead, loggerhead, jolthead, jolterhead, beetlehead, beetlebrain, grosshead, muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead
  • numbskull, thickskull
  • lackbrain, shallowbrain
  • dimwit, halfwit, lackwit
  • dunderpate
  • lunkhead sawney [U.S.], gowk
  • clod, clod-hopper
  • clod-poll, clot-poll, clot-pate
  • bull calf
  • gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube [U.S.]
  • men of Boeotia, sot
  • jobbernowl, changeling, mooncalf, gobemouche. dotard, driveler
  • old fogey, old woman, crock
  • crone, grandmother
  • cotquean, henhussy. incompetent (insanity) Insanity. greenhorn etc. (dupe) Dupe
  • dunce etc. (ignoramus) Ignoramus
  • lubber etc. (bungler) Bungler
  • madman etc. Madman. one who will not set the Thames on fire
  • one who did not invent gunpowder
  • no conjuror.