Folly - Wikipedia 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 - Wiktionary, the free dictionary Foolishness that results from a lack of foresight or lack of practicality It would be folly to walk all that way, knowing the shops are probably shut by now The purchase of Alaska from Russia was termed Seward's folly
FOLLY definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary 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 build nuclear power stations in a country that has dozens of earthquakes every year a reminder of the follies of war
FOLLY Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com Folly definition: the state or quality of being foolish; lack of understanding or sense See examples of FOLLY used in a sentence
folly - WordReference. com Dictionary of English fol•ly (fol′ ē), n , pl -lies for 2–6 lack of understanding or sense absurdity: the folly of performing without a rehearsal unwise investment or expenditure