Definition of silly

"silly" in the noun sense

1. silly

a word used for misbehaving children

"don't be a silly"

"silly" in the adjective sense

1. goofy, silly, wacky, whacky, zany

ludicrous, foolish

"wore a goofy hat"

"a silly idea"

"some wacky plan for selling more books"

2. airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light-headed, lightheaded, silly

lacking seriousness given to frivolity

"a dizzy blonde"

"light-headed teenagers"

"silly giggles"

3. pathetic, ridiculous, silly

inspiring scornful pity

"how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett

4. punch-drunk, silly, slaphappy

dazed from or as if from repeated blows

"knocked silly by the impact"

"slaphappy with exhaustion"

"punch-drunk with love"

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

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Quotations for silly

What silly people wits are! [ Beaumarchais ]

Mere wishes are silly fishes. [ Proverb ]

How blest the humble cotter's fate!
He woos his simple dearie;
The silly bogles, wealth, and state,
Can never make them eerie. [ Burns ]

It is a silly game where nobody wins. [ Proverb ]

It is a silly bargain where nobody gets. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. [ Cat ]

It is a silly goose that comes to a fox's sermon. [ Proverb ]

Your great admirers are mostly but silly fellows. [ Proverb ]

The tattler’s tongue is ever dancing a silly jig. [ Proverb ]

It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. [ Proverb ]

It is a silly horse that can neither whinny nor wag his tail. [ Proverb ]

That is a woeful silly sheep that goes to the wolf to confess. [ Proverb ]

Silly dogs are more angry with the stone, than with the hand that flung it. [ Proverb ]

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. [ Swift ]

Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. [ Chesterfield ]

Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in speaking their minds. A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune. [ Steele ]

The absent one is an ideal person; those who are present seem to one another to be quite commonplace. It is a silly thing that the ideal is, as it were, ousted by the real; that may be the reason why to the moderns their ideal only manifests itself in longing. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes; and if you hint to a man that you think him silly, ignorant, or even ill-bred, or awkward, he will hate you more and longer than if you tell him plainly that you think him a rogue. [ Chesterfield ]

A jealous man is suspicious, evermore judging the worst; for if his wife be merry, he thinketh her immodest; if sober, sullen; if pleasant, unconstant; if she laugh, it is lewdly; if she look, it is lightly; yea, he is still casting beyond the moon, and watcheth as the crafty cat over the silly mouse. [ J. Bodenham ]

silly in Scrabble®

The word silly is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

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silly in Words With Friends™

The word silly is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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SILLY
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Words within the letters of silly

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5 letter words in silly (Anagrams) (3 words)

silly + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence silly

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