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adjective

Silly adj. (compar. sillier; superl. silliest)

Happy; fortunate; blessed. (Obs.)

Harmless; innocent; inoffensive. (Obs.) "This silly, innocent Custance." "The silly virgin strove him to withstand." "A silly, innocent hare murdered of a dog."

Weak; helpless; frail. (Obs.) "After long storms... With which my silly bark was tossed sore." "The silly buckets on the deck."

Rustic; plain; simple; humble. (Obs.) "A fourth man, in a sillyhabit." "All that did their silly thoughts so busy keep."

Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.

Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.

Synonyms: Simple; brainless; witless; shallow; foolish; unwise; indiscreet. See Simple.

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"Silly" Quotes from Famous Books

... it seemed a silly piece, but he spoke it to please Miss Amanda, and because it was a hit at Dick Hardman. To his surprise he received a roar of applause. After the supper, dancing began. Some of the cowboys got drunk. There were fights, two ...

— Valley of Wild Horses • Zane Grey

... sent them a letter once in two months by the little tug that brought my oil and provisions—that I was homesick. I said the ocean was glorious; that there was a Byronic sublimity in lighting up the lantern; that standing behind a counter and showing dry-goods to silly, giggling girls couldn't be compared with it; that I hadn't blushed in six months, and that I didn't think I should ever be willing to come back to a world full of ...

— The Blunders of a Bashful Man • Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

... "He doesn't seem silly, like some boys, either," said Florence. "I know a boy, we call him 'sissy,' he is so like a girl, and he is always whining, and afraid of cold, and afraid of ...

— A Sweet Little Maid • Amy E. Blanchard

... ruminating silence was broken only by the honk-honk of a distant motor. The carp, impeded in his lethargic progress by the thick stem of a water-lily, had stood still (if a fish can be said to stand) for a century—nearly five minutes—his silly old nose ...

— The Halo • Bettina von Hutten

... the election is but human nature practically applied to the facts of the case. What has occurred in this case must ever recur in similar cases. Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we will have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to ...

— The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln

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