folly
US: /ˈfɑɫi/
UK: /fˈɒli/
UK: /fˈɒli/
English Vietnamese dictionary
folly /'fɔli/
- danh từ
- sự điên rồ; hành động đại dột, ý nghĩ điên rồ, lời nói dại dột; điều nực cười, vật nực cười
- it would be the height of folly to do that: làm việc đó hết sức điên rồ
- công trình xây dựng toi tiền (tốn tiền nhưng không dùng được)
- sự điên rồ; hành động đại dột, ý nghĩ điên rồ, lời nói dại dột; điều nực cười, vật nực cười
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun (plural follies)
1 [U, C] ~ (to do sth) a lack of good judgement; the fact of doing sth stupid; an activity or idea that shows a lack of judgement: an act of sheer folly + the follies of youth + Giving up a secure job seems to be the height of folly. + It would be folly to turn the offer down. + His idealism had been soured by the varied spectacle of human folly.
2 [C] (BrE) a building that has no practical purpose but was built in the past as an ornament, often in the garden of a large country house
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 foolishness, nonsense, absurdity, daftness, silliness, preposterousness, absurdness, senselessness, fatuousness, fatuity, rashness, stupidity, asininity, inanity, nonsensicalness, idiocy, imbecility, irrationality, lunacy, insanity, madness, craziness, eccentricity, weak-mindedness, feeble-mindedness, simple-mindedness, muddle-headedness, thickheadedness, stolidity, stolidness, obtuseness, brainlessness, Colloq dumbness, dopiness, nuttiness, US and Canadian kookiness:
They saw the folly of fighting against such enormous odds. It would be folly to leave in this storm.
2 absurdity, mistake, blunder, error, faux pas, gaffe, Colloq goof, fluff:
What follies have been committed in the name of honour!
Collocation dictionary
1 lack of good judgement
ADJ.
absolute, sheer | ultimate | youthful | human | economic, political
VERB + FOLLY
realize, recognize, see
Suddenly she saw the folly of it all.
| demonstrate, show
These facts demonstrate the folly of the policy.
| underline
PHRASES
an act of folly
That would be an act of sheer folly!
| the folly of your ways
They have finally seen the folly of their ways.
| the height of folly
To sign away his rights to the book would have been the height of folly.
2 building
ADJ.
Gothic, Victorian | monumental | architectural
VERB + FOLLY
build
Concise English dictionary
follies'fɑlɪ /'fɒl-
noun
+the trait of acting stupidly or rashly
+a stupid mistake
+the quality of being rash and foolish
+foolish or senseless behavior
