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Definition: Fool's Paradise |
Fool's ParadiseNoun1. An illusory state of wellbeing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Fool's Paradise Unlawful pleasure, illicit love, vain hopes. Thus, in Romeo and Juliet, the Nurse says to Romeo, "If ye should lead her [Juliet] into a fool's paradise, it were a gross ... behaviour." The old schoolmen said there were three places where persons not good enough for paradise were admitted: (1) The limbus patrum, for those good men who had died before the death of the Redeemer; (2) The limbus infantum or paradise of unbaptised infants; and (3) The limbus fatuorum or paradise of idiots and others who were non compos mentis. (See Limbo.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disappointment | Noun: disappointment; blighted hope, balk; blow; anticlimax; slip 'twixt cup and lip; nonfulfillment of one's hopes; sad disappointment, bitter disappointment; trick of fortune; afterclap; false expectation, vain expectation; miscalculation; fool's paradise; much cry and little wool. |
Hope | Castles in the air, castles in Spain, chateaux en Espagne, le pot aut lait, Utopia, millennium; day dream, golden dream; dream of Alnaschar; airy hopes, fool's paradise; mirage; (fallacies of vision); fond hope. |
Misjudgment | Prejudgment, prejudication, prejudice; foregone conclusion; prenotion, prevention, preconception, predilection, prepossession, preapprehension, presumption, assumption, presentiment; fixed idea, preconceived idea; id_e fixe; mentis gratissimus error; fool's paradise. |
Rashness | Gaming, gambling; blind bargain, leap in the dark, leap of faith, fool's paradise; too many eggs in one basket. |
Unsubstantiality | Inanity, fool's paradise. |
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Screenplays | A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell. (Stargate SG-1; writing credit: Robert C. Cooper; Brad Wright) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fool's Paradise (1921) A Fool's Paradise (1916) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. |
Thomas Fuller | A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell! |
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Expression using "fool's paradise": live in a fool's paradise. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "fool's paradise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | parajsë imagjinar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | eldorádó (cloud-cuckoo-land, el dorado), csodaország (cloud-cuckoo-land, wonderland), boldog tudatlanság. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ool'sfay aradisepay rai imaginar. (various references) призрачное счастье. (various references) leva i lycklig okunnighet (live in a fool's paradise). (various references) hayal alemi, geçici mutluluk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-a-a-d-e-f-i-l-o-o-p-r-s-s" | |
-5 letters: aerofoils, aforesaid, diasporas, diaspores, dispersal, disproofs, fairleads, faradises, feldspars, foresails, fossorial, palisades, paradises, paradoses, polarised, polarises, poolsides, prosodies, psoraleas, seafloors, solarised. | |
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