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Woolish vs Foolish - What's the difference?

woolish | foolish |

As adjectives the difference between woolish and foolish

is that woolish is resembling or characteristic of wool while foolish is lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.

woolish

English

Alternative forms

*woollish

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Resembling or characteristic of wool.
  • * 1998 , Harris Mullen, God Bless General Early , High Water Press (1998), ISBN 0964662922, page 263:
  • He grabbed a woolish outfit and didn't realize until putting on the jacket that it was his Confederate uniform.
  • * 2004 , L. B. Richards, The Adventures of Charley Tooth , Vortex (2004), ISBN 9780843951363, page 279:
  • He also wore a woolish hat that he had down almost over his eyes.
  • * 2006 , C. S. Lovelace, Memoirs of a Lost Island: Remembrances of a Lifetime of Nantucket Summers , ISBN 9781430303633, page 106:
  • (If they had been in color, you would see the flash of gold and white against the green moors -- and, who knows, maybe some woolish grey?)
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  • Synonyms

    *woollike *wooly, woolly

    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