folly

insensatez, necedad

Falta de buen juicio, especialmente al ignorar posibles problemas o actuar sin pensar en las consecuencias.

En inglés sencillo: A lack of good judgment, especially when someone ignores likely problems or acts without thinking ahead.

• Going alone would be folly.
• She regretted the follies of her youth.
• The disaster exposed the folly of building on the floodplain.

Cómo se usa: it is folly to do something (It is folly to spend money you do not have.); the folly of doing something (He realized the folly of ignoring her advice.)

Sinónimos: foolishness, stupidity

Antónimos: wisdom

Expresiones frecuentes: sheer folly, the folly of, act of folly

capricho arquitectónico

Construcción poco habitual hecha principalmente para resultar bonita o interesante, más que para tener una utilidad práctica.

En inglés sencillo: An unusual building made mainly to look interesting or beautiful, rather than for a practical use.

• A stone folly stands in the garden.
• The tower is a folly built to resemble a ruined castle.
• Visitors can walk around the estate's unusual follies.

Expresiones frecuentes: garden folly, ornamental folly, eighteenth-century folly