Foolish vs Ninny - What's the difference?
foolish | ninny |
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 .
a silly or foolish person
* {{quote-book
, year=1607
, author=John Marston
, title=What you will
, chapter=Act 5, Scene 1
''Sim. Not I by this garter, I am a foole, a very Ninny I, how call you her? how call you her? }}* "Ninny — that soft, smiling, self-effacing, apologetic fellow, the type who is terribly sorry when you happen to step on his foot, the kind you can borrow money from in the certainty he will never demand you repay it." — (1962)
As a adjective foolish
is lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.As a noun ninny is
a silly or foolish person.foolish
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Adjective
(en-adj)Synonyms
* absurd * idiotic * ridiculous * silly * unwiseAntonyms
* wiseDerived terms
* foolishnessninny
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(ninnies)citation, page=three of sheet G3 , passage=Byd.'' ...a good cheeke, an inticing eye, a smooth skinne, a well shapt leg, a faire hand, you cannot bring a wench into a fooles parradize for you?
''Sim. Not I by this garter, I am a foole, a very Ninny I, how call you her? how call you her? }}