Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: dwase
- Amharic: ሞኝ
- Arabic: من الغباء
- Azerbaijani: axmaq
- Bashkir: глупый
- Belarusian: па-дурному
- Bulgarian: глупаво
- Bengali: গবা
- Bosnian: glupo
- Catalan: ximple
- Cebuano: buang-buang
- Czech: hloupé
- Welsh: ffôl
- Danish: tåbeligt
- German: dumm
- Greek: ανόητο
- Esperanto: malsaĝa
- Spanish: tonto
- Estonian: rumal
- Basque: inozoak
- Persian: احمقانه
- Finnish: typerää
- French: stupide
- Irish: ideal
- Scottish Gaelic: foolish
- Galician: tolo
- Gujarati: મૂર્ખ
- Hebrew: טיפשי
- Hindi: मूर्ख
- Croatian: glupo
- Haitian: tèt chaje
- Hungarian: ostoba
- Armenian: հիմար
- Indonesian: bodoh
- Icelandic: heimska
- Italian: sciocco
- Japanese: 愚
- Javanese: gemblung
- Georgian: სულელური
- Kazakh: ақымақтық
- Khmer: ល្ងង់
- Kannada: ಮೂರ್ಖ
- Korean: 어리석은
- Kyrgyz: глупо
- Latin: stultus
- Luxembourgish: domm
- Lao: ໂງ່
- Lithuanian: kvaila
- Latvian: muļķīgi
- Malagasy: adala
- Mari: аҥыра
- Maori: wairangi
- Macedonian: глупави
- Malayalam: foolish
- Mongolian: мунхаг
- Marathi: मूर्ख
- Hill Mari: пермӓк
- Malay: bodoh
- Maltese: iblah
- Burmese: မိုက်မဲ
- Nepali: मूर्ख
- Dutch: dwaas
- Norwegian: dumt
- Punjabi: ਮੂਰਖ
- Papiamento: tanto
- Polish: głupie
- Portuguese: insensato
- Romanian: o prostie
- Russian: глупо
- Sinhalese: මෝඩ
- Slovak: pochabé
- Slovenian: neumno
- Albanian: qesharake
- Serbian: глупо
- Sundanese: foolish
- Swedish: dumt
- Swahili: wajinga
- Tamil: முட்டாள்
- Telugu: మూర్ఖు
- Tajik: девона
- Thai: โง่
- Tagalog: luka-luka
- Turkish: aptalca
- Tatar: ахмаклык
- Udmurt: шузи
- Ukrainian: нерозумно
- Urdu: بے وقوف
- Uzbek: ovsar
- Vietnamese: ngu ngốc
- Xhosa: foolish
- Yiddish: נאַריש
- Chinese: 愚蠢的
Synonyms, close and similar words for foolish
- stupid
- silly
- daffy
- goosey
- unwise
- injudicious
- irrational
- whacky
- idiotic
- wacky
- asinine
- inept
- goofy
- sappy
- preposterous
- cockeyed
- nutty
- reckless
- unintelligent
- unreasonable
- impolitic
- foolhardy
- unreasoning
- thoughtless
- fatuous
- brainless
- mindless
- witless
- senseless
- folly
- silliness
- stupidity
- nonsense
- dumb
- daft
- wild
- lunatic
- crazy
- mad
- insane
- balmy
- absurd
- cantankerous
- ridiculous
- harebrained
- inane
- nonsensical
- zany