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UK
/sˈɪli/
]
[ US /ˈsɪɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈsɪɫi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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ludicrous, foolish
some wacky plan for selling more books
wore a goofy hat
a silly idea -
inspiring scornful pity
how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years -
lacking seriousness; given to frivolity
silly giggles
light-headed teenagers
a dizzy blonde -
dazed from or as if from repeated blows
knocked silly by the impact
punch-drunk with love
slaphappy with exhaustion
NOUN
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a word used for misbehaving children
don't be a silly
How To Use silly In A Sentence
- Again, one file change can put a little red nose next to all of your headers, turn the text red and even make them display in a silly typeface.
- This done with expedition, like men skilful in such mischief, as they took their cockboat to go aboard their own ship, it was overwhelmed in the sea, and certain of these men there drowned; the rest were preserved even by those silly souls whom they had before spoiled, who saved and delivered them aboard the _Swallow_. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
- Du fwhat we cud, we cud not make some av th 'silly fules kape back clear av th' danger-zone -- wimmin an 'all, bedad! The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
- She plays Silly, a Nova Scotian seasprite of girl who is the subject of a marine tragedy of, er, Titanic proportions.
- They're so silly, and they tattle.
- knocked silly by the impact
- he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind
- Perhaps if he hadn't looked so unwontedly silly, then he would have been able to keep it down, but instead he snorted.
- We were all bored silly by the play.
- She was not going to be fooled by their silly voices and accents.