silly
IPA: sˈɪɫi
noun
- (colloquial) A silly person.
- (endearing, gently derogatory) A term of address.
- (colloquial) A mistake.
adjective
- Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.
- (of numbers, particularly prices) Absurdly large.
- (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) Blessed
- Good; pious.
- Holy.
- (now chiefly Scotland and Northern England, rare) Pitiful, inspiring compassion
- (now literary) Innocent; suffering undeservedly, especially as an epithet of lambs and sheep.
- (now literary) Helpless, defenseless.
- Insignificant, worthless, (chiefly Scotland) especially with regard to land quality.
- Weak, frail; flimsy (use concerning people and animals is now obsolete).
- Sickly; feeble; infirm.
- (now rustic UK, rare) Simple, plain
- Rustic, homely.
- (obsolete) Lowly, of humble station.
- Mentally simple, foolish
- (obsolete) Rustic, uneducated, unlearned.
- Thoughtless, lacking judgment.
- (Scotland) Mentally retarded.
- Stupefied, senseless; stunned or dazed.
- (cricket, of a fielding position) Very close to the batsman, facing the bowler; closer than short.
adverb
- (now regional or colloquial) Sillily: in a silly manner.
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Examples of "silly" in Sentences
- The clown made silly jokes.
- They thought it is silly to decentralize.
- Of course, it was a silly and sorrowful war.
- All of the the other issues are plain silly.
- Also, the sectioning of the campaigns is silly.
- Any arguement to the contrary is mute and silly.
- This claim is immoderate, exaggerated, and silly.
- It's silly and downgrades the quality of the article.
- It is a mixture of the serious and the silly, deliberately.
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