fool's gold

1. 1.

   a common mineral (iron disulfide) that has a pale yellow color

   Synonymspyriteiron pyrite

   Broadermineral

Questions about fool's gold

What does fool's gold mean?

fool's gold means "a common mineral (iron disulfide) that has a pale yellow color".

What is another word for fool's gold?

Close synonyms include pyrite, iron pyrite. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fool's gold a common word?

fool's gold is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.