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
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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?
Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
I understand my colleagues ’ interest in agreeing to this legislation, but disagree on the wisdom of rolling back so many of Dodd-Frank’s protections with almost no gains for working families.
I'm anticipating a Democrat succeeding me. I'm confident in the wisdom of the American people on that front, but even if somebody from a different party succeeded me, one of the things you find is when you're in this job, you think about it differently than if you're just running for the job.
Meditation is re-discovering the inner Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God lies in our understandings and wisdom.
For this is Wisdom to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give. To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow To have, - to hold - and - in time, - let go
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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