What are some opposite words for WISDOM?
Antonyms for WISDOM
ˈwɪz dəmwis·dom
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term WISDOM.
Wiktionary
wisdomnoun
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foolishness, follySynonyms:
sagacitywisdomnoun
An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
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folly, foolishnessSynonyms:
sagacitywisdomnoun
A piece of wise advice.
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foolishness, follySynonyms:
sagacitywisdomnoun
The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.
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folly, foolishnessSynonyms:
sagacitywisdomnoun
The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained.
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folly, foolishnessSynonyms:
sagacitywisdomnoun
The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.
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foolishness, follySynonyms:
sagacitywisdomnoun
The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.
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sagacityAntonyms:
foolishness, folly
English Synonyms and Antonyms
wisdom
Enlightenment, erudition, information, knowledge, learning, and skill are acquired, as by study or practise. Insight, judgment, profundity or depth, reason, sagacity, sense, and understanding are native qualities of mind, tho capable of increase by cultivation. The other qualities are on the border-line. Wisdom has been defined as "the right use of knowledge," or "the use of the most important means for attaining the best ends," wisdom thus presupposing knowledge for its very existence and exercise. Wisdom is mental power acting upon the materials that fullest knowledge gives in the most effective way. There may be what is termed "practical wisdom" that looks only to material results; but in its full sense, wisdom implies the highest and noblest exercise of all the faculties of the moral nature as well as of the intellect. Prudence is a lower and more negative form of the same virtue, respecting outward and practical matters, and largely with a view of avoiding loss and injury; wisdom transcends prudence, so that while the part of prudence is ordinarily also that of wisdom, cases arise, as in the exigencies of business or of war, when the highest wisdom is in the disregard of the maxims of prudence. Judgment, the power of forming decisions, especially correct decisions, is broader and more positive than prudence, leading one to do, as readily as to refrain from doing; but judgment is more limited in range and less exalted in character than wisdom; to say of one that he displayed good judgment is much less than to say that he manifested wisdom. Skill is far inferior to wisdom, consisting largely in the practical application of acquired knowledge, power, and habitual processes, or in the ingenious contrivance that makes such application possible. In the making of something perfectly useless there may be great skill, but no wisdom. Compare ACUMEN; ASTUTE; KNOWLEDGE; MIND; PRUDENCE; SAGACIOUS; SKILFUL.
Compare synonyms for ABSURD; IDIOCY.
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absurdity, error, fatuity, folly, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, imprudence, indiscretion, miscalculation, misjudgment, nonsense, senselessness, silliness, stupiditySynonyms:
attainment, depth, discernment, discretion, enlightenment, erudition, foresight, information, insight, judgment, judiciousness, knowledge, learning, prescience, profundity, prudence, reason, reason, reasonableness, sagacity, sense, skill, understanding
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
wisdom
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ignorance, illiterateness, sciolism, indiscernment, injudiciousness, folly, imprudence, darkness, empiricism, smattering, inacquaintanceSynonyms:
knowledge, erudition, learning, enlightenment, attainment, information, discernment, judgment, sagacity, prudence, light
Matched Categories
Princeton's WordNet
wisdomnoun
accumulated knowledge or erudition or enlightenment
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folly, foolishness, unwisenesswisdom, wisenessnoun
the trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight
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foolishness, folly, unwisenesswisdom, sapiencenoun
ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight
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unwiseness, folly, foolishnesswisdom, wiseness, soundnessnoun
the quality of being prudent and sensible
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folly, unwiseness, foolishnessWisdom of Solomon, Wisdomnoun
an Apocryphal book consisting mainly of a meditation on wisdom; although ascribed to Solomon it was probably written in the first century BC
Antonyms:
folly, foolishness, unwiseness
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
How to use WISDOM in a sentence?
They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.
He's a good kid, and just wants to go to school. But one thing that he told me was really astute and worth sharing : he doesn't want this story to only be about him, he realizes that there are other young people who have fewer privileges, less access and endure even greater traumas, but whose stories go unreported until something truly tragic happens. He wants the focus to remain on them. I couldn't be prouder of him for having the wisdom to recognize that.
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#899 | error | |
#5174 | wisdom | |
#6663 | darkness | |
#11981 | ignorance | |
#12351 | nonsense | |
#20444 | stupidity | |
#21891 | folly | |
#37614 | absurdity | |
#45111 | silliness | |
#47276 | foolishness | |
#48388 | idiocy | |
#69489 | smattering | |
#72093 | empiricism | |
#91338 | miscalculation | |
#92835 | indiscretion | |
#173706 | imbecility | |
#182661 | imprudence | |
#223530 | misjudgment | |
#245809 | senselessness |
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