Foollike

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of a fool.

    "There are several things on Lear's mind here: sexual loathing, revenge, a hallucinatory, at times satirical, vision of court life and of himself as king, a foollike insistence on unpleasant truths in his conversations with Gloucester, […]"

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"There are several things on Lear's mind here: sexual loathing, revenge, a hallucinatory, at times satirical, vision of court life and of himself as king, a foollike insistence on unpleasant truths in his conversations with Gloucester, […]"

Etymology

From fool + -like.

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