Usually means: Person who acts without wisdom.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. fool: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fool, fool: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fool: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fool: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fool: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fool, Fool, fool: Wordnik
  7. fool: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fool: Wiktionary
  9. fool: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fool: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fool: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fool: Dictionary.com
  13. fool (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fool: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. FOOL, Fool (Elvis Presley song), Fool (If You Think It's Over), Fool (Joe Jackson album), Fool (card game), Fool (court jester), Fool (disambiguation), Fool (novel), Fool (stock character), Fool, The Fool (Edward Bond play), The Fool (Lee Ann Womack song), The Fool (Raffi novel), The Fool (Ryn Weaver album), The Fool (Sanford Clark song), The Fool (Tarot card), The Fool (The Fool album), The Fool (Warpaint album), The Fool (band), The Fool (design collective), The Fool (guitar), The Fool (novel), The Fool (play), The Fool (tarot card), The Fool: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fool: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fool: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fool: Rhymezone
  19. fool: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fool: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Fool: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. F.O.O.L, FOOL: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Fool: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. fool: Free Dictionary
  25. fool: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. fool: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fool: ANIME AND MANGA GLOSSARY

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fool: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FOOL: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. fool: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. FOOL: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. fool: Idioms
  5. fool: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fool: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. F.O.O.L: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See fooled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (derogatory) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
noun:  (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
noun:  (literature) A stock character typified by unintelligence, naïveté or lucklessness, usually as a form of comic relief; often used as a source of insight or pathos for the audience, as such characters are generally less bound by social expectations.
noun:  Someone who has been made a fool of or tricked; dupe.
noun:  (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
noun:  (slang, chiefly African-American Vernacular, Hispanic) An informal greeting akin to buddy, dude, or man.
noun:  (tarot, often capitalized Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.
verb:  (transitive) To trick; to deceive.
verb:  (intransitive) To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly.
verb:  (archaic) To make a fool of; to make act the fool.
adjective:  (informal) Foolish.
noun:  (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (tarot, often capitalized Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.

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