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foolish
English
Etymology
From Middle English folisch; equivalent to fool +? -ish.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fu?.l??/
Adjective
foolish (comparative foolisher or more foolish, superlative foolishest or most foolish)
- (of a person, an action, etc.) Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
- Resembling or characteristic of a fool.
Synonyms
- absurd
- idiotic
- ridiculous
- silly
- unwise
Antonyms
- wise
Derived terms
- a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
- foolishly
- foolishness
Translations
foolish From the web:
- what foolish means
- what foolishness you talking
- what does foolish mean
- what do foolish mean
- what is meant by foolish
headless
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h?dl?s/
Etymology
From Middle English heedles, hevedles, from Old English h?afodl?as (“headless”), equivalent to head +? -less. Cognate with Dutch hoofdloos (“headless”), Danish hovedløs (“headless”), Swedish huvudlös (“headless”), Icelandic höfuðlaus (“headless”).
Adjective
headless (not comparable)
- Without a head; decapitated.
- How did the headless horseman see to chase Ichabod?
- Without leadership.
- The headless army blundered along after the death of their general, accomplishing nothing.
- His forsaken soldiers, being now a headless company, and no longer an army to be feared, obtained nevertheless a reasonable composition from the Carthaginians […]
- (linguistics, of a phrase or compound) Not having a head morpheme or word.
- (computing) Running without a graphical user interface; running without any attached output device (e.g., monitor) or input device (e.g., keyboard, mouse).
- 2003, William Boswell, Inside Windows Server 2003, Addison-Wesley, ?ISBN, page 62:
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. Used for console redirection in headless servers.
- 2007, Carla Schroder, Linux Networking Cookbook, O’Reilly Media (2008), ?ISBN, page 47:
- Routers typically run headless, without a keyboard or monitor.
- 2010, Charles Bell et al., MySQL High Availability: Tools for Building Robust Data Centers, O'Reilly Media, ?ISBN, page 278:
- This is not unexpected for a Windows system running as a virtual machine or a headless server […]
- 2003, William Boswell, Inside Windows Server 2003, Addison-Wesley, ?ISBN, page 62:
- (of beer) Without a head of foam.
- (obsolete) Heedless.
- 1579, E. K. (Edward Kirke ?), Notes on Spenser’s The Shepheardes Calender
- If any one will rashly blame such his choice of old and unwonted words, him may I more justly blame and condemn, either of witless headiness in judging, or of headless hardiness in condemning.
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepherd’s Calendar, John Ball, London, published 1732
- THENOT: Cuddy, I wot thou ken?t little Good, / So vainly to advance thy headle?s Hood.
- 1579, E. K. (Edward Kirke ?), Notes on Spenser’s The Shepheardes Calender
Derived terms
- headlessly
- headlessness
- run around like a headless chicken
Translations
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- what's headless commerce
- what's headless mode
- what's headless horseman
- what headless chicken means
- what headless server means
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