Silly

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  • adjective. Having or exhibiting a lack of good judgment or common sense; foolish. synonym: foolish.
  • adjective. Lacking seriousness or responsibleness; frivolous.
  • adjective. Semiconscious; dazed.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Happy; fortunate; blessed.
  • Plain; simple; rustic; rude.
  • Simple-hearted; guileless; ingenuous; innocent.
  • Weak; impotent; helpless; frail.
  • Foolish, as a term of pity; deficient in understanding; weak-minded; witless; simple.
  • Foolish, as an epithet of contempt; characterized by weakness or folly; manifesting want of judgment or common sense; stupid or unwise: as, a silly coxcomb; a silly book; silly conduct.
  • Fatuous; imbecile; mentally weak to the verge of idiocy.
  • Weak in body: not in good health; sickly; weakly.
  • Synonyms Dull, etc. see simple.
  • Absurd, Silly, Foolish, etc. See a bsurd.
  • noun. A silly person: as, what a silly you are!
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Happy; fortunate; blessed.
  • adjective. Harmless; innocent; inoffensive.
  • adjective. Weak; helpless; frail.
  • adjective. Rustic; plain; simple; humble.
  • adjective. Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple.
  • adjective. Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Pitiable; deserving of compassion; helpless.
  • adjective. Simple, unsophisticated, ordinary; rustic, ignorant.
  • adjective. foolish, showing a lack of good sense and wisdom; frivolous, trifling.
  • adjective. irresponsible, showing irresponsible behaviors.
  • adjective. playful, giggly.
  • adjective. semiconscious, witless.
  • adjective. of a fielding position, very close to the batsman; closer than short
  • adjective. simple, not intelligent, refined.
  • noun. A silly person; a fool.
  • noun. A mistake.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. dazed from or as if from repeated blows
  • adjective. ludicrous, foolish
  • adjective. inspiring scornful pity
  • noun. a word used for misbehaving children
  • adjective. lacking seriousness; given to frivolity
  • Word Usage
    "The term "silly season," in Washington, usually refers to the August congressional vacation... oh, excuse me, "district work period.""
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    child  fry  kid  minor  nestling  
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    Pickwickian  absurd  absurd  airy  apish  
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    sillier  silliest