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Meaning of silly in English
Don't do that, you silly boy!
silly of It was silly of you to go out in the sun without a hat.
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
- stupidSome people are too stupid to realize what's bad for them.
- foolishShe was really foolish to quit her job like that.
- sillyIt was silly of you to go out in the sun without a hat.
- crazyYou'd be absolutely crazy to marry that man.
- dumbUS She was terrified of asking dumb questions.
She gets upset over such silly things.
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- What's the name of that guy on TV - you know, the American one with the silly voice?
- They can't expect me to accommodate all their silly little likes and dislikes.
- Why are you putting on that silly voice?
- I screamed myself silly on the roller coaster.
- Seriously now, did he really say that or are you just being silly?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
silly mid-on Wilkes has his foot on the pitch as he fields at silly mid-on.
Idioms
(Definition of silly from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of silly
silly
It was perfectly all right to say silly things.
No, how silly, it came from ancient boreal forests, further afield, and was blown off course.
But this is a silly question (at least for anyone who takes justice seriously enough to raise it).
Unfortunately - if not surprisingly - each of these senses, in isolation, comes off sounding rather silly.
It is silly to focus on achieving spontaneity or pleasure in what one does, so the observation goes.
To ask whether it is real or authentic is a silly question.
When the time came for the experimenter to elicit these words, she told the child that they would now be playing a silly word game.
I found this argument to be rather silly.
However, only the silly word game productions were compared with child productions.
These questions are all silly for integers because we treat integers as values, not objects.
I am not suggesting that it is in principle silly to think that behaviors of this sort could be underwritten by genes.
The experimenter told the child that she would say some silly words, and the child should repeat these silly words back to her.
The idea of total transparency is silly, if not incoherent.
Children were told to read some silly, meaningless words.
What they probably mean is that they are afraid to sing in case someone thinks they sound silly.
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Translations of silly
in Chinese (Traditional)
愚蠢的，傻的, 尷尬的, 擔心被他人嘲笑的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
愚蠢的，傻的, 尴尬的, 担心被他人嘲笑的…
in Spanish
tonto, bobo, trivial…
in Portuguese
bobo, tolo, bobo/-ba…
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bête, idiot/-ote, stupide…
ximple, ridícul, trivial…
சிறிய சிந்தனை அல்லது தீர்ப்பைக் காண்பித்தல், முக்கியமான, தீவிரமான அல்லது நடைமுறை அல்ல…
వెర్రి, ముఖ్యమైనది కాని, తీవ్రమైనది లేక ఆచరణాత్మకమైనది కాని…
sciocco, da niente, di poca importanza…
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