Fool vs. Mad

Foolnoun

(pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

Foolnoun

(historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).

Foolnoun

(informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.

Foolnoun

Buddy, dude, person.

Foolnoun

(cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.

Foolnoun

A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.

Foolverb

To trick; to deceive

Foolverb

To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly

Fooladjective

(informal) foolish

Foolnoun

A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; - commonly called gooseberry fool.

Foolnoun

One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.

Foolnoun

A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.

Foolnoun

One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.

Foolnoun

One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.

Foolverb

To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

Foolverb

To infatuate; to make foolish.

Foolverb

To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money.

Foolnoun

a person who lacks good judgment

Foolnoun

a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

Foolnoun

a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages

Foolverb

make a fool or dupe of

Foolverb

spend frivolously and unwisely;

Foolverb

fool or hoax;

Foolverb

indulge in horseplay;

Foolnoun

a person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person

Foolnoun

a person who is duped or imposed on

Foolnoun

a jester or clown, especially one retained in a royal or noble household.

Foolnoun

a cold dessert made of pureed fruit mixed or served with cream or custard

Foolverb

trick or deceive (someone); dupe

Foolverb

act in a joking, frivolous, or teasing way

Foolverb

engage in casual or extramarital sexual activity.

Fooladjective

foolish; silly

Madadjective

Insane; crazy, mentally deranged.

Madadjective

Angry, annoyed.

Madadjective

Wildly confused or excited.

Madadjective

Extremely foolish or unwise; irrational; imprudent.

Madadjective

Extremely enthusiastic about; crazy about; infatuated with; overcome with desire for.

Madadjective

(of animals) Abnormally ferocious or furious; or, rabid, affected with rabies.

Madadjective

Intensifier, signifies an abundance or high quality of a thing; very, much or many.

Madadjective

(of a compass needle) Having impaired polarity.

Madadverb

Intensifier; to a large degree; extremely; exceedingly; very; unbelievably.

Madverb

To be or become mad.

Madverb

To madden, to anger, to frustrate.

Mad

p. p. of Made.

Madadjective

Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane.

Madadjective

Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform.

Madadjective

Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness.

Madadjective

Extravagant; immoderate.

Madadjective

Furious with rage, terror, or disease; - said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.

Madadjective

Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person.

Madadjective

Having impaired polarity; - applied to a compass needle.

Madverb

To make mad or furious; to madden.

Madverb

To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding.

Madnoun

An earthworm.

Madadjective

roused to anger;

Madadjective

affected with madness or insanity;

Madadjective

marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion;

Madadjective

very foolish;

Madadjective

mentally ill; insane

Madadjective

(of behaviour or an idea) extremely foolish; not sensible

Madadjective

in a frenzied mental or physical state

Madadjective

(of a dog) rabid.

Madadjective

very enthusiastic about someone or something

Madadjective

very exciting.

Madadjective

very angry

Madadjective

great; remarkable

Madadverb

very; extremely

Madverb

make (someone) mad