fool's paradise

Speech parts

1. fool's paradise - Noun

2. fool's paradise - Phrase

Meaning

an illusory state of wellbeing

Source: WordNet

Antonyms

real world actuality verity corporality perceptibility

Hypernyms

welfare eudaimonia well-being upbeat wellbeing eudaemonia

Examples

Traveling is a fool's paradise... I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there besides me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise - when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter. Jessamyn West

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this fool's paradise he drank delight. George Crabbe

Self exaltation is the fool's paradise. Italian Proverb

Words in the phrase

fool s paradise

Close letter words and terms

fool's gold fool's goldtree fool's huckleberry fool's parsley fool's webcap fool-born