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silly
noun
1 silly
A word used for misbehaving children.
Polish: głuptas, głuptaś, głuptasek
adjective
1 silly
Ludicrous, foolish:
— A silly idea.
synonyms: goofy, wacky, whacky, zany.
Roget 486:
credulous,
gullible;
easily deceived
etc.
545;
simple,
green,
soft,
childish,
silly,
stupid;
easily convinced;
over-credulous,
over confident,
over trustful;
infatuated,
superstitious;
confiding
etc.
(believing)
484.
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2 silly
Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity:
— Silly giggles.
synonyms: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded.
Roget 499:
unintelligent
[Applied to persons],
unintellectual,
unreasoning;
mindless,
witless,
reasoningless†,
brainless;
halfbaked;
having no head
etc.
498;
not bright
etc.
498;
inapprehensible†.
weak headed,
addle headed,
puzzle headed,
blunder headed,
muddle headed,
muddy headed,
pig headed,
beetle headed,
buffle headed†,
chuckle headed,
mutton headed,
maggoty headed,
grossheaded†;
beef headed,
fat witted,
fat-headed.
weak-minded,
feeble-minded;
dull minded,
shallow minded,
lack-brained;
rattle-brained,
rattle headed;
half witted,
lean witted,
short witted,
dull witted,
blunt-witted,
shallow-pated†,
clod-pated†,
addle-pated†,
addle-brained†;
dim-sighted,
short-sighted;
thick-skulled;
weak in the upper story.
shallow,
borne,
weak,
wanting,
soft,
sappy,
spoony;
dull,
dull as a beetle;
stupid,
heavy,
insulse†,
obtuse,
blunt,
stolid,
doltish;
asinine;
inapt
etc.
699;
prosaic
etc.
843;
hebetudinous†.
childish,
child-like;
infantine†,
infantile,
babyish,
babish†;
puerile,
anile;
simple
etc.
(credulous)
486;
old-womanish.
fatuous,
idiotic,
imbecile,
driveling;
blatant,
babbling;
vacant;
sottish;
bewildered
etc.
475.
blockish†,
unteachable Boeotian,
Boeotic;
bovine;
ungifted,
undiscerning†,
unenlightened,
unwise,
unphilosophical†;
apish;
simious†.
foolish,
silly,
senseless,
irrational,
insensate,
nonsensical,
inept;
maudlin.
narrow-minded
etc.
481;
bigoted
etc.
(obstinate)
606;
giddy
etc.
(thoughtless)
458;
rash
etc.
863;
eccentric
etc.
(crazed)
503.
[Applied to actions]
foolish,
unwise,
injudicious,
improper,
unreasonable,
without reason,
ridiculous,
absurd,
idiotic,
silly,
stupid,
asinine;
ill-imagined,
ill-advised,
ill-judged,
ill-devised;
mal entendu [Fr.];
inconsistent,
irrational,
unphilosophical†;
extravagant
etc.
(nonsensical)
497;
sleeveless,
idle;
pointless,
useless
etc.
645;
inexpedient
etc.
647;
frivolous
etc.
(trivial)
643.
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3 silly
Inspiring scornful pity:
— How silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years.
synonyms: pathetic, ridiculous.
4 silly
Dazed from or as if from repeated blows:
— Knocked silly by the impact.
synonyms: punch-drunk, slaphappy.
Roget 503:
insane,
mad,
lunatic,
loony [Coll.];
crazy,
crazed,
aliene†,
non compos mentis;
not right,
cracked,
touched;
bereft of reason;
all possessed,
unhinged,
unsettled in one's mind;
insensate,
reasonless,
beside oneself,
demented,
daft;
phrenzied†,
frenzied,
frenetic;
possessed,
possessed with a devil;
deranged,
maddened,
moonstruck;
shatterpated†;
mad-brained,
scatter brained,
shatter brained,
crackbrained;
touched,
tetched [Coll.];
off one's head.
[behavior suggesting insanity]
maniacal;
delirious,
lightheaded,
incoherent,
rambling,
doting,
wandering;
frantic,
raving,
stark staring mad,
stark raving mad,
wild-eyed,
berserk;
delusional,
hallucinatory.
[behavior somewhat resembling insanity]
corybantic†,
dithyrambic;
rabid,
giddy,
vertiginous,
wild;
haggard,
mazed;
flighty;
distracted,
distraught;
depressed;
agitated,
hyped up;
bewildered
etc.
(uncertain)
475.
mad as a March hare,
mad as a hatter;
of unsound mind
etc.
n.;
touched in one's head,
wrong in one's head,
not right in one's head,
not in one's right mind,
not right in one's wits,
upper story;
out of one's mind,
out of one's wits,
out of one's skull [Coll.],
far gone,
out of one's senses,
out of one's wits;
not in one's right mind.
fanatical,
infatuated,
odd,
eccentric;
hypped†,
hyppish†;
spaced out [Coll.].
imbecile,
silly,
etc.
499.
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adverb
Roget 544:
falsely
etc.
adj.;
a la tartufe,
with a double tongue;
silly
etc.
(cunning)
702.
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