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Foolish vs Incongruous - What's the difference?

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Incongruous is a synonym of foolish.



As adjectives the difference between foolish and incongruous

is that foolish is lacking good sense or judgement; unwise while incongruous is not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.

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

    incongruous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.
  • * 1853 , , Villette , ch. 34:
  • [P]erhaps he thought me, with my basket of summer fruit, and my lack of the dignity age confers, an incongruous figure in such a scene.
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  • Ona was blue-eyed and fair, while Jurgis had great black eyes with beetling brows, and thick black hair that curled in waves about his ears—in short, they were one of those incongruous and impossible married couples with which Mother Nature so often wills to confound all prophets.
  • * 1912 , , A Son Of The Sun m ch. 1:
  • Ardent suns had likewise tanned his face till it was swarthy as a Spaniard's. The yellow mustache appeared incongruous in the midst of such swarthiness.
  • * 2014 , Daniel Taylor, England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard'' (in ''The Guardian , 18 November 2014)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/18/scotland-england-international-friendly-match-report]
  • For a few moments England toyed with the idea of making it a more difficult night than necessary. Scotland had scored a goal that seemed incongruous to the rest of their performance and, briefly, a fiercely partisan crowd sensed an improbable comeback.
  • (math) Of two numbers, with respect to a third, such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder.
  • 20 and 25 are incongruous with respect to 4.

    Derived terms

    * incongruously * incongruousness