Silly
31silly — adj. & n. adj. (sillier, silliest) 1 lacking sense; foolish, imprudent, unwise. 2 weak minded. 3 Cricket (of a fielder or position) very close to the batsman (silly mid off). 4 archaic innocent, simple, helpless. n. (pl. ies) colloq. a foolish… …
32Silly — Original name in latin Silly Name in other language Opzullik, Silly State code BE Continent/City Europe/Brussels longitude 50.64877 latitude 3.92363 altitude 59 Population 7887 Date 2012 01 18 …
33silly — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. witless, foolish, stupid, childish; fatuous, inane; senseless, absurd, ridiculous; stunned. See absurdity, credulity, folly. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. senseless, ridiculous, nonsensical, foolish,… …
34silly — [OE] In one of the more celebrated semantic volte faces in the history of the English lexicon, silly has been transformed over the past millennium from ‘blessed, happy’ to ‘stupid’. The word goes back ultimately to a prehistoric West Germanic… …
35silly — sil•ly [[t]ˈsɪl i[/t]] adj. li•er, li•est, 1) weak minded or lacking good sense; stupid or foolish 2) absurd; ridiculous; nonsensical 3) stunned; dazed: He knocked me silly[/ex] 4) archaic rustic; plain; homely 5) archaic weak; helpless 6) Obs.… …
36silly — see ask a silly question and you get a silly answer …
37silly — [OE] In one of the more celebrated semantic volte faces in the history of the English lexicon, silly has been transformed over the past millennium from ‘blessed, happy’ to ‘stupid’. The word goes back ultimately to a prehistoric West Germanic… …
38silly — to look silly is to look ill in health. York. As, you look main silly to day …
39Silly — This interesting name is of early medieval English origin, and is primarily a nickname surname from the use of the Olde English pre 7th Century word saelig , a derivative of sael , meaning happiness, good fortune, used as a term to describe… …
40silly — adj. Silly is used with these nouns: ↑argument, ↑crush, ↑fool, ↑game, ↑grin, ↑hat, ↑joke, ↑notion, ↑question, ↑remark, ↑season, ↑thing, ↑ …
