folly

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Synonyms: golly, dolly, colly, jolly, fully, molly, foley, polly, foxly, rolly, filly

Antonyms: golly, dolly, colly, jolly, fully, molly, foley, polly, foxly, rolly, filly

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Noun

1. Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality.
   • It would be folly to walk all that way, knowing the shops are probably shut by now.
2. Thoughtless action resulting in tragic consequence.
   • The purchase of Alaska from Russia was termed Seward's folly.
3. A fanciful building built for purely ornamental reasons.
   • A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.

Verb

1. To follow.

Noun

1. A clump of trees, particularly one on the crest of a hill (or sometimes on a stretch of open ground).

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