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Fool vs Logical - What's the difference?

fool | logical |

As a noun fool

is (pejorative) a person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

As a verb fool

is to trick; to make a fool of someone.

As an adjective logical is

(not comparable) in agreement with the principles of logic.

fool

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
    • You were a fool to cross that busy road without looking.
    The village fool threw his own shoes down the well.
  • * Franklin
    • Experience keeps a dear school, but fools' will learn in no ' other .
  • (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
  • (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
  • * Milton
    • Can they think me their fool or jester?
  • * 1975 , , "Fool for the City" (song), Fool for the City (album):
    • I'm a fool for the city.
  • (cooking) A type of dessert made of d fruit and custard or cream.
    • an apricot fool'''; a gooseberry '''fool
  • A particular card in a tarot deck.

    • Synonyms

    * (person with poor judgment) See also * (person who entertained a sovereign) jester, joker * (person who talks a lot of nonsense) gobshite

    Verb

  • To trick; to make a fool of someone.
  • To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.
  • * Dryden
    • Is this a time for fooling ?

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * befool * fool about * fool around * foolhardy * foolish * foolishness * foolometer * fool's errand * fool's gold * fool's paradise * foolproof * more fool you * play the fool * suffer fools gladly * there's no fool like an old fool

    References

    1000 English basic words ----

    logical

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (not comparable) In agreement with the principles of logic.
  • Reasonable.
  • (not comparable) Of or pertaining to logic.
  • (computing) Non-physical or conceptual yet underpinned by something physical or actual.
    • Logical memory appears contiguous to an application program, but may well be stored on several physical devices, including in RAM and on hard-disks, as determined by the operating system.
  • * 1986 , Noel Malcolm Morris, Computer graphics and CAD fundamentals: BBC Micro version
    • It is, of course, vital to restore the logical colours to their normal value at the end of the program

    Antonyms

    * illogical

    Derived terms

    * logically * logical analysis * logical atomism * logical positivism * logical empiricism

    Related terms

    * rational * biological, neurological, physiological, etc. (use of the suffix -ical as opposed to just -ic)