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Foolish vs Mindless - What's the difference?

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Foolish is a related term of mindless.


As adjectives the difference between foolish and mindless

is that foolish is lacking good sense or judgement; unwise while mindless is showing a lack of forethought or sense.

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.
  • :
  • *(Aeschylus)
  • *:It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish .

    • Synonyms

    * absurd * idiotic * ridiculous * silly * unwise

    Antonyms

    * wise

    Derived terms

    * foolishness

    mindless

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing a lack of forethought or sense.
  • Having no sensible meaning or purpose.
    • An act of mindless violence.
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    • , year=2012 , date=August 5 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993) citation , page= , passage=“I Love Lisa” opens with one of my favorite underappreciated running jokes from The Simpsons : the passive-aggressive, quietly contentious relationship of radio jocks Bill and Marty, whose mindless happy talk regularly gives way to charged exchanges that betray the simmering resentment and disappointment perpetually lingering just under the surface of their relationship.}}
  • Heedless.
  • (of a thing done) Overly repetitive and unchallenging.
  • Lacking a mind.
    • Atheism alleges that mindless scientific forces control the universe.

    Antonyms

    * mindful

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