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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

lacking wisdom or good sense - acting foolish;

e.g. My decision was most unwise and as a result I lost a lot of money.

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Opposite Words

Advisable

Alert

Appropriate

Becoming

Businesslike

Canny

Civil

Clear-eyed

Clear-sighted

Contemplative

Desirable

Discerning

Discreet

Discriminating

Earnest

Earnestly

Exceptional

Grave

Heady

Humorless

Hyperintelligent

Nimble

No-nonsense

Perspicacious

Po-faced

Politic

Professional

Reflective

Sage

Sane

Scholarly

Sedate

Serious

Severe

Sober

Sobersided

Solemn

Tactful

Tactical

Thoughtful

Unsmiling

Utilitarian

Valid

Weighty

Well-advised

Witted

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Related Words

Absurd

Bonehead

Brain-dead

Brainless

Careless

Clownish

Clueless

Cockamamie

Comical

Dense

Derisory

Dim

Dim-witted

Dopey

Dorky

Dull

Dumb

Empty

Empty-headed

Extravagant

Fallacious

Farcical

Fatuous

Feebleminded

Foolish

Gormless

Groundless

Harebrained

Heedless

Idiotic

Ill-advised

Ill-mannered

Illogical

Imbecile

Improper

Improvident

Inane

Inappropriate

Inconsiderate

Irrational

Lamebrain

Laughable

Ludicrous

Meaningless

Mindless

Myopic

Nonrational

Nonvalid

Notional

Obtuse

Opaque

Pathetic

Pinheaded

Pointless

Preposterous

Prodigal

Profligate

Ridiculous

Risible

Senseless

Shortsighted

Silly

Simple

Slow

Slow-witted

Sluggish

Soft

Softheaded

Spendthrift

Stupid

Surd

Thick

Thick-witted

Thickheaded

Thoughtless

Thriftless

Unbecoming

Uncivil

Unconsidered

Undiscriminating

Unfounded

Unintelligent

Unreasonable

Unreasoned

Unreasoning

Unseemly

Unsmart

Unsound

Unsubstantiated

Unsupported

Unthrifty

Unwarranted

Vacuous

Wasteful

Weak

Weak-minded

Witless

Witted

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