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adjective

Silly adj. (compar. sillier; superl. silliest)

Happy; fortunate; blessed. (Obs.)

Harmless; innocent; inoffensive. (Obs.) "This silly, innocent Custance." "The silly virgin strove him to withstand." "A silly, innocent hare murdered of a dog."

Weak; helpless; frail. (Obs.) "After long storms... With which my silly bark was tossed sore." "The silly buckets on the deck."

Rustic; plain; simple; humble. (Obs.) "A fourth man, in a sillyhabit." "All that did their silly thoughts so busy keep."

Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.

Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.

Synonyms: Simple; brainless; witless; shallow; foolish; unwise; indiscreet. See Simple.

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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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