Foolish
Foolish adjective - Showing or marked by a lack of good sense or judgment.
Idealistic and foolish are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Idealistic" instead an adjective "Foolish".
Idealistic
Idealistic adjective - Having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality.
Foolish and idealistic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Foolish" instead an adjective "Idealistic".
Both words in one sentence
- Sansa starts as idealistic, naive, and, frankly, rather foolish, but is forcibly disabused of her innocence.
Source: Rescued from the Scrappy Heap -
Likewise, Esmeralda, as the 16-year-old Damsel in Distress, is also fickle, foolish, and hopelessly idealistic.
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Fury's "You need to keep both eyes open" line is edited in the trailer so it looks like he's berating Steve for maintaining his idealistic worldview in an era where such thoughts are naive and foolish (something that would make sense, as he does give the Captain such a speech during the film).
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