TOMFOOLISH Antonyms

• marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters

• concerned with actual use or practice

• guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory

• being actually such in almost every respect

• having or put to a practical purpose or use

• careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment

• consistent with or based on or using reason

• capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers

• an integer or a fraction

• of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind

• having its source in or being guided by the intellect (as distinguished from experience or emotion)

• showing reason or sound judgment

• not excessive or extreme

• marked by sound judgment; having good reason

• showing reason or sound judgment

• able to feel or perceive

• readily perceived by the senses

• aware intuitively or intellectually of something sensed

• concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities

• completely lacking in playfulness

• of great consequence

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• appealing to the mind

• requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve

• marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

• acting with a specific goal

• having or prompted by wisdom or discernment

• a way of doing or being

• United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949)

• United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900)

• marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters

• evidencing the possession of inside information

• improperly forward or bold