单词 | silly |
释义 | silly/ˈsɪli![]() adjective (sillier, silliest) 1Having or showing a lack of common sense or judgement; absurd and foolish: another of his silly jokes ‘Don’t be silly!’ she said...
Synonyms foolish, stupid, unintelligent, idiotic, brainless, mindless, witless, imbecilic, imbecile, doltish; imprudent, thoughtless, rash, reckless, foolhardy, irresponsible; mad, erratic, unstable, scatterbrained, feather-brained; flighty, frivolous, giddy, fatuous, inane, immature, childish, puerile, half-baked, empty-headed, half-witted, slow-witted, weak-minded informal daft, crazy, dotty, scatty, loopy, screwy, soft, brain-dead, cretinous, thick, thickheaded, birdbrained, pea-brained, pinheaded, dopey, dim, dim-witted, dippy, pie-faced, fat-headed, blockheaded, boneheaded, lamebrained, chuckleheaded, dunderheaded, wooden-headed, muttonheaded, damfool British informal divvy, dappy Scottish & Northern English informal glaikit North American informal dumb-ass, chowderheaded South African informal dof West Indian informal dotish dated tomfool unwise, imprudent, thoughtless, foolish, stupid, idiotic, senseless, mindless, fatuous; rash, reckless, foolhardy, irresponsible, inadvisable, injudicious, ill-considered, misguided, inappropriate, illogical, irrational, unreasonable; hare-brained, absurd, ridiculous, ludicrous, laughable, risible, farcical, preposterous, asinine informal daft, crazy 1.1Ridiculously trivial or frivolous: he would brood about silly things...
Synonyms trivial, trifling, frivolous, footling, petty, niggling, small, slight, minor, insignificant, unimportant, inconsequential, of little account informal piffling, piddling North American informal small-bore 1.2 [as complement] Used to convey that an activity or process has been engaged in to such a degree that someone is no longer capable of thinking or acting sensibly: he often drank himself silly his mother worried herself silly over him...
Synonyms senseless, insensible, unconscious, stupid, dopey, into a stupor, into oblivion, into senselessness, into a daze; numb, dazed, stunned, stupefied, groggy, muzzy 2 archaic (Especially of a woman, child, or animal) helpless; defenceless.In many of the tales the fairies are tiny, silly, helpless creatures....
3 [attributive] Cricket Denoting fielding positions very close to the batsman: silly mid-on...
noun (plural sillies) informal A foolish person (often used as a form of address): come on, silly...
Synonyms nincompoop, dunce, simpleton informal nitwit, ninny, dimwit, dope, dumbo, dummy, chump, goon, jackass, fathead, bonehead, chucklehead, knucklehead, lamebrain, clod, pea-brain, pudding-head, thickhead, wooden-head, pinhead, airhead, birdbrain, scatterbrain, noodle, donkey British informal silly billy, stupe, nit, clot, twit, berk, twerp Scottish informal nyaff, sumph, gowk, balloon North American informal bozo, boob, schlepper, goofball, goof, goofus, galoot, lummox, dip, simp, spud, coot, palooka, poop, yo-yo, dingleberry Australian/New Zealand informal drongo, dill, alec, galah, nong, bogan, poon, boofhead South African informal mompara informal, dated muttonhead, noddy archaic clodpole, spoony, mooncalf Phrasesthe silly season Derivativessillily
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense 'deserving of pity or sympathy'): alteration of dialect seely 'happy', later 'innocent, feeble', from a West Germanic base meaning 'luck, happiness'. The sense 'foolish' developed via the stages 'feeble' and 'unsophisticated, ignorant'.
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