Folly

Meaning of Folly

noun
  1. lack of good sense; foolishness.
    an act of sheer folly
  2. a costly ornamental building with no practical purpose, especially a tower or mock-Gothic ruin built in a large garden or park.
  3. a theatrical revue with glamorous female performers.
    the Ziegfeld Follies

Middle English: from Old French folie ‘madness’, in modern French also ‘delight, favourite dwelling’ (compare with folly (sense 2)), from fol ‘fool, foolish’.

Information about Folly

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Hyphenation of Folly

Folly

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • Folly is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Folly synonyms

Meaning foolishness:

foolishness, unwiseness, craziness, madness

Meaning stupidity:

stupidity, foolishness, imbecility

Meaning foolery:

foolery, tomfoolery, craziness, lunacy, indulgence

Words that rhyme with Folly

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