Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with fool in American Collocation
fool
noun
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What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
US
/ful/
when criticizing someone in a gentle way
old
poor
Oh, don’t listen to that old fool.
believing something that is not true
deluded
gullible
misguided
naive
He says that people who think fishing is cruel are misguided fools.
stupid or crazy
crazy
mad
silly
stupid
What crazy fool would bring a van onto the beach?
complete
complete
utter
John reacted in a way that made him seem a complete fool.
sentimental
sentimental
Being a sentimental old fool, I cried all the way through the film.
not good at something
bumbling
incompetent
How could such a bumbling fool get to this position?
behave like a fool
act (like)
behave like
grin like
play
talk like
He was always playing the fool.
seem like a fool
feel (like)
look (like)
sound like
I would have looked a fool if I’d been wrong.
say or think that someone is a fool
call someone
take someone for
I get the horrible feeling I’m being taken for a fool.
I felt that they had made a fool out of me at the interview.
He made a fool of himself by turning up drunk to a TV chat show.