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# fool

«fool» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who acts in a silly way or without good sense** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fool/#m1)

2) To fool someone means to trick them into believing something that is not true. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fool/#m2)

3) To fool around means to behave in a silly way or play about. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fool/#m3)

4) A fool is also a cold pudding of fruit and cream (UK). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fool/#m4)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fool/#x1)
- He fooled me into thinking it was Saturday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fool/#x2)
- You can't fool me; I saw you take it! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fool/#x3)
- Stop fooling around near the pool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fool/#x4)
- On April Fools' Day, my brother put salt in the sugar bowl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fool/#x5)
- The king's fool told funny jokes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fool/#x6)
- I felt like a fool when I forgot my lines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fool/#x7)
- We had strawberry fool for pudding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fool/#x8)
- "We will all act like fools." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fool/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/32-bad-news-protests-and-helping-others/2/)
- [An AI that learned what cats look like can be fooled by something fluffy and cat-shaped, such as a slipper.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/11/)
- [AI can now make pictures, videos and voices that look and sound real, and tricksters use them to fool kind people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/16-secrets-scams-telling/0/)
- [Looks can fool you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures/4/)
- [Wake up, old fool).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/48-willows-ch6-part4-twenty-years-in-the-dungeon/34/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fool» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fool/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.