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Foolish vs Prattery - What's the difference?

foolish | prattery |

As an adjective foolish

is lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.

As a noun prattery is

foolishness or foolish behaviour.

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

    prattery

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Foolishness or foolish behaviour.
  • * 2004. March 13, “Ian G Batten” (username), “ Re: haddock”, in uk.misc, Usenet ,
    • If an obviously egomanic twit makes wonderful music, should his prattery disqualify him?
  • *2004. July 20, Alastair Down, The Racing Post'' (London, England), article ''The Open and Shut Case of the Missing Hub-Caps.
  • *:...Paying sportsmen obscene sums of money does not necessarily mean they behave badly. Unlike football, there seems to be no correlation between fat cattery and prattery .
  • *2008. Jan 26, Simon Barnes, Tehran Times'', article ''Keep Class Out of it. In sport you are either good enough, or you’re not ,
  • *:Marcus Willis... had been driving the coaches at the Lawn Tennis Association to distraction, and with this latest bit of prattery finally pushed his luck too far.
  • * 1821. March, Sarah Spencer Lady Lyttelton. Correspondence of Sarah Spencer Lady Lyttelton 1787-1870 (Kessinger Publishing, 2006), page 234
    • The Prattery are just come to town.
  • *1871. March 18, Edwin Norris, in ''The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot, Glasgow University[http://foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk/project/project.html]
    • ...We have hunutu muttabbiltu, which must be instruments musical, see hunutu in my p. 291. I derive it from the viol, or prattery, your nabala.

    Related terms

    * prattle * prattler