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Silly

adjective
(compar. sillier; superl. silliest)
1.
Ludicrous, foolish.  Synonyms: cockamamie, cockamamy, goofy, sappy, wacky, whacky, zany.  "Wore a goofy hat" , "A silly idea" , "Some wacky plan for selling more books"
2.
Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity.  Synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded.  "Light-headed teenagers" , "Silly giggles"
3.
Inspiring scornful pity.  Synonyms: pathetic, ridiculous.
4.
Dazed from or as if from repeated blows.  Synonyms: punch-drunk, slaphappy.  "Slaphappy with exhaustion"
noun
1.
A word used for misbehaving children.



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"Silly" Quotes from Famous Books



... felt that way too. So I simply asked him what he was doing and he made some silly remark about Bluebeard's chamber. He means to keep his old secret, too, 'cause he put the key on his key-ring when he didn't know ...
— Ralestone Luck • Andre Norton
... be so silly," Gladys cried, "of course there isn't any water here. It's only a trick, a trick to frighten you—and I'm beginning to think ...
— The Sorcery Club • Elliott O'Donnell
... the moments of contrast with which Strauss has attempted to relieve the dominant mood of his work. Just as in "Salome" the more restless and sensual passages, lazily felt as they are, are nevertheless infinitely more significant than the intensely contrasting silly music assigned to the Prophet, so, too, in "Elektra," the moments when Strauss is cruel, brutal, ugly are of a much higher expressiveness than those in which he has sought to write beautifully. For whereas in moments of the ...
— Musical Portraits - Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers • Paul Rosenfeld
... of the silly things attributed to God by our Christ-worshipers, let us look a little further into their mysteries. They worship one God in three persons, or three persons in one God, and they attribute to themselves ...
— Superstition In All Ages (1732) - Common Sense • Jean Meslier
... from a sharp fit of goose, such as attacks many boys who, because matters do not go exactly as they like at home, consider that they are ill-used, and long for what they call their freedom—a freedom which is really slavery, inasmuch as they make themselves the bond-servants of their silly fancies, and it takes some ...
— Dick o' the Fens - A Tale of the Great East Swamp • George Manville Fenn


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