Silly

Adjective

 * 1)  Pitiable; deserving of compassion; helpless.
 * 2) * 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vi:
 * A silly man, in simple weedes forworne, / And soild with dust of the long dried way; / His sandales were with toilesome trauell torne, / And face all tand with scorching sunny ray [...].
 * 1)  Simple, unsophisticated, ordinary; rustic, ignorant.
 * 2) * 1633, John Donne, "Sapho to Philænis":
 * For, if we justly call each silly man / A little island, What shall we call thee than?
 * 1) foolish, showing a lack of good sense and wisdom; frivolous, trifling.
 * I made a very silly mistake.
 * 1) irresponsible, showing irresponsible behaviors.
 * What a silly kid, he's always getting in trouble.
 * 1) playful, giggly.
 * The newlyweds called each other silly little nicknames.
 * 1) semiconscious, witless.
 * The impact of the ball knocked him silly.
 * 1)  of a fielding position, very close to the batsman; closer than short
 * 2)  simple, not intelligent, refined.
 * John was prosperous and his helpless, silly father could be of no use to him.

Derived terms

 * sillily (adverb)
 * silly season

Noun

 * 1)  A silly person; a fool.
 * 2)  A mistake.

Adverbs for Silly
miserably; incurably; senselessly; stupidly; loutishly; clownishly; purposely; amusingly; entertainingly; feignedly; absurdly; laughably; imprudently; indiscreetly; hopelessly; disagreeably; intolerably; disgustingly; contemptibly; curiously; pitiably; lamentably; deplorably; wretchedly; disastrously; utterly; hopelessly.

Thesaurus
Pickwickian, absurd, airy, apish, asinine, balmy, batty, bedazzled, befooled, beguiled, benumbed, besotted, blockhead, bonehead, booby, brainless, buffoonish, catchpenny, childish, clod, clot, cockeyed, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, daze, dazed, dazzled, dippy, dizzy, dolt, dope, dopey, doting, drip, dumb, dummy, dunce, empty, empty-headed, fatuitous, fatuous, featherbrained, flaky, flighty, flimsy, fond, fool, foolhardy, foolheaded, foolish, fribble, fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fuddled, futile, gaga, giddy, goofy, goose, groggy, gulled, harebrained, idiot, idiotic, idle, ignoramus, ignorant, illogical, imbecile, imbecilic, in a daze, inane, inept, infatuated, insane, irrational, irresponsible, jackass, jerk, knocked silly, kooky, laughable, light, light-headed, loony, ludicrous, mad, maudlin, mazed, moronic, muzzy, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, nonsensical, nugacious, nugatory, numskull, nutty, off, otiose, pointless, poppycockish, preposterous, puerile, punch-drunk, punchy, rattlebrained, ridiculous, risible, rubbishy, sappy, scatterbrained, screwy, senseless, sentimental, shallow, silly Billy, silly ass, simpleton, skimble-skamble, slaphappy, slender, slight, stunned, stupefied, stupid, superficial, thoughtless, trashy, trifling, trite, trivial, twaddling, twaddly, twit, unintelligent, unreasonable, unwise, unwitty, vacuous, vain, vapid, wacky, weak-minded, wet, windy, witless, woozy

Etymology
Phonetic variant of seely:, related to soul. From *undefined:, "blessed", (attested only in form gesælig:), from. Cognate with West Frisian sillich:, Dutch zalig:, German selig:.

Pronunciation




Adjective

 * Arabic: سخيف
 * Armenian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , , , , , , 憨痴
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , , stupide


 * German:
 * Hebrew: מטופש, טיפשי
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: fatue
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 馬鹿げた, 他愛ない,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: hölmö, ajattelematon, vastuuton,
 * French:, , , branque , jeté


 * Japanese: ,
 * Norwegian: tullete, fjollete


 * Dutch:, gek
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:


 * Japanese: つまらない
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: lekfull, fnittrig


 * Finnish:


 * French:


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 * Finnish: ,
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 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , 愚鈍な
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * : sensenca, stulteta


 * : tolol, dungu
 * : necio, bobo, simple, absurdo, insensato, tonto

Anagrams

 * silyl
 * slily
 * yills