Silly
['sɪlɪ] or ['sɪli]
Definition
(noun.) a word used for misbehaving children; 'don't be a silly'.
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Definition
(n.) Happy; fortunate; blessed.
(n.) Harmless; innocent; inoffensive.
(n.) Weak; helpless; frail.
(n.) Rustic; plain; simple; humble.
(n.) Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.
(n.) Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Senseless, witless, stupid, foolish, DAFT, simple, weak, childish, inept.[2]. Absurd, trifling, frivolous, extravagant, preposterous, nonsensical.
Typist: Terrence
Definition
adj. simple: harmless: foolish: witless: imprudent: absurd: stupid.—n. a silly person.—adv. Sill′ily.—ns. Sill′iness; Sill′y-how a caul.
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Examples
- Why, you silly man, she continued, where do you suppose I got them? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But it is a little silly for an agitator to cry thief when the success of his agitation has led to the adoption of his ideas. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- No, you mightn't, if you weren't silly, said Ben. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This is not becoming in a sensible dog; anybody would think you were a silly young gentleman. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But don't imagine it was from any silly cause. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Darling, you shouldn't take silly chances. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- You silly little fibster! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- That's silly. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- If people are so silly as to indulge the sentiment, is it my fault? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Why, you silly child, who do you think would want to buy your Harry? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- That was the silliest part of the war. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Your Briarfield gossips are capable of saying that or sillier things. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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