archfool

An extremely foolish person.

Noun

  1. An extremely foolish person.
    • The end was that he was thought an archfool. - 1876, Great Britain. Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII...
    • The sixth priest calls anyone an archfool who believes that priests have a good life. Even though he became a priest unawares and now cannot escape, he warns other young men to avoid this life of misery. - 1993, Peter...

Origin

From arch- + fool.

Forms

archfools