fool
part of speech
noun (a fool, fools); verb (fool, fools, fooled, fooling); adjective (foolish)
meaning for a pupil
1) A fool is a person who acts in a silly way or without good sense. tree →
2) To fool someone means to trick them into believing something that is not true. tree →
3) To fool around means to behave in a silly way or play about. tree →
4) A fool is also a cold pudding of fruit and cream (UK). tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life, «Don't be a fool» means don't do something silly; calling someone a fool can be unkind. «You can't fool me» means I won't be tricked. April Fools' Day is a day for harmless tricks. In safety, «fooling around» near water, roads or on stairs causes accidents. In stories and old plays, a fool (jester) told jokes to the king, and foolish characters learn lessons.
examples
- Don't be a fool; put your helmet on. tree →
- He fooled me into thinking it was Saturday. tree →
- You can't fool me; I saw you take it! tree →
- Stop fooling around near the pool. tree →
- On April Fools' Day, my brother put salt in the sugar bowl. tree →
- The king's fool told funny jokes. tree →
- I felt like a fool when I forgot my lines. tree →
- We had strawberry fool for pudding. tree →
- "We will all act like fools." tree →
note
Countable noun. Adjective «foolish», noun «foolishness». «Fool» and «trick» are close as verbs. «Fool around» (US also «fool about»). Calling a person a fool can hurt; prefer saying what was silly. «April Fools' Day» is spelt with the apostrophe after s.
In the corpora
- Not everything you see is true: some stories and videos are made up or edited on purpose to fool people.
- An AI that learned what cats look like can be fooled by something fluffy and cat-shaped, such as a slipper.
- AI can now make pictures, videos and voices that look and sound real, and tricksters use them to fool kind people.
- Looks can fool you.
- Wake up, old fool).
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «fool» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.