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The meaning of FOLLY is lack of good sense or normal prudence and foresight. How to use folly in a sentence.
In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of usual garden buildings.
FOLLY definition: the state or quality of being foolish; lack of understanding or sense. See examples of folly used in a sentence.
FOLLY definition: 1. the fact of being stupid, or a stupid action, idea, etc.: 2. a building in the form of a small…. Learn more.
- Lack of good sense, understanding, or foresight: an act of folly 2. a. An act or instance of foolishness: regretted the follies of his youth. b. A costly undertaking having an absurd or ruinous outcome.
If you say that a particular action or way of behaving is folly or a folly, you mean that it is foolish. It's sheer folly to have a barbecue in the woods in the summer.
Definition of folly noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
folly, n.¹ meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary
Hence 'Folly Farm', 'Folly Hill' when no such building existed.” Folly is occasionally used of clumps of trees, usually isolated plantations on hill-tops or on open land.