Fool vs. Joker — What's the Difference?

A person who acts unwisely or imprudently; a silly person

A person who is fond of joking.

A jester or clown, especially one retained in a royal or noble household.

A playing card, typically bearing the figure of a jester, used in some games as a wild card.

A cold dessert made of pureed fruit mixed or served with cream or custard

A clause unobtrusively inserted in a bill or document and affecting its operation in a way not immediately apparent.

Trick or deceive (someone); dupe

One who tells or plays jokes.

Act in a joking, frivolous, or teasing way

An insolent person who seeks to make a show of cleverness.

Foolish; silly

(Informal) An annoying or inept person

One who is deficient in judgment, sense, or understanding.

(Games) A playing card, usually printed with a picture of a jester, used in certain games as the highest-ranking card or as a wild card.

One who acts unwisely on a given occasion

A clause that is included in a legislative bill or a contract in order to render the bill or contract inoperative or oppressive in some respect while appearing to be innocuous until the harm has been done.

One who has been tricked or made to appear ridiculous; a dupe

An unforeseen but important difficulty, fact, or circumstance.

(Informal) A person with a talent or enthusiasm for a certain activity

A deceptive means of getting the better of someone.

A member of a royal or noble household who provided entertainment, as with jokes or antics; a jester.

A person who makes jokes.

One who subverts convention or orthodoxy or varies from social conformity in order to reveal spiritual or moral truth

(slang) A funny person.

A dessert made of stewed or puréed fruit mixed with cream or custard and served cold.

A jester.

(Archaic) A mentally deficient person; an idiot.

A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.

To deceive or trick; dupe

An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.

To confound or prove wrong; surprise, especially pleasantly

A man.

To speak or act facetiously or in jest; joke

A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.

To behave comically; clown.

(military) A friendly unit that acts as a suspected hostile unit in a military excercise.

To feign; pretend

One who makes jokes or jests.

To engage in idle or frivolous activity.

See Best bower, under 2d Bower.

To toy, tinker, or mess

An extra card usually included in a deck of playing cards, having the same design as the others on the back, but on the face having a picture of a jester. It is not included in the deck used in most games, but in certain games may be included and then takes on a special value, such as the highest-valued card, or a wild card.

Foolish; stupid

A clause placed in a document, such as a contract or a piece of legislation, not itself appearing significant, but in a subtle way substantially changing the effect of the document.

(pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.

Any fact or condition which is unknown or not apparent, which reverses an apparently advantageous position; a kicker.

(historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).

A person; a fellow; a chap; - usually used in a mildly disparaging sense; as, who's the joker who left the ice cream on the table?.

(informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.

A person who enjoys telling or playing jokes

Buddy, dude, man.

A person who does something thoughtless or annoying;

(cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.

A particular card in a tarot deck, representing a jester.

To trick; to deceive.

To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly.

(archaic) To make a fool of; to make act the fool.

(informal) Foolish.

A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; - commonly called gooseberry fool.

One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural.

A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt.

One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person.

One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments.

To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

To infatuate; to make foolish.

To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money.

A person who lacks good judgment

A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

A professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages

Make a fool or dupe of

Spend frivolously and unwisely;

Fool or hoax;

Indulge in horseplay;