Fool
Fool adjective - Showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment.
Usage example: he's always got some fool plan or other
Intelligent is an antonym for fool.
Intelligent
Intelligent adjective - Having or showing quickness of mind.
Usage example: his intelligent response to the emergency averted a disaster
Fool is an antonym for intelligent.
Both words in one sentence
- Chance is a good-hearted fool, but he affects intelligent-but-unhappy people only because they think he's intelligent, and his concrete statements are thus interpreted as grand metaphors.
Source: Dumb Is Good - If you're at all intelligent, nothing you can say will fool him into letting you past him.
Source: Too Dumb to Fool - Although... Hidden Depths: Cammy may act like a drunken fool and swear like a trucker, but when he's expounding on politics or religion, he reveals that he's actually very intelligent.
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