pound-foolish

1. 1.

   unwise in dealing with large sums

   Similarwasteful

Questions about pound-foolish

What does pound-foolish mean?

pound-foolish means "unwise in dealing with large sums".

How many syllables are in pound-foolish?

pound-foolish has 3 syllables and divides as pound--foo-lish under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is pound-foolish a common word?

pound-foolish 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.