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Foolish vs Damnfool - What's the difference?

foolish | damnfool |

As adjectives the difference between foolish and damnfool

is that foolish is lacking good sense or judgement; unwise while damnfool is contemptibly foolish.

foolish

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
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  • *:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish , but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
  • Resembling or characteristic of a fool.
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  • *(Aeschylus)
  • *:It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish .

    • Synonyms

    * absurd * idiotic * ridiculous * silly * unwise

    Antonyms

    * wise

    Derived terms

    * foolishness

    damnfool

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (informal) Contemptibly foolish.
  • * 1973 , Edith Taylor, The Serpent Under It
    • ...those damnfool detective stories you read...
  • * 1988 , Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
    • Damnfool thing to be asking. Might as well inquire, what possessed you to rush in here?
  • * 2000 , Suzette Haden Elgin, Susan M Squier, Julie Vedder, Native Tongue
    • And celebrating damnfool so-called holidays like Space Colony Day and Reagan's Birthday? 'Course, they do Halloween and Thanksgiving and Christmas and such...