silly
愚蠢的,傻乎乎的,傻傻的,愚蠢
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sil·li·er, sil·li·est.
- : weak-minded or lacking good sense; stupid or foolish: a silly writer.
- : absurd; ridiculous; irrational: a silly idea.
- : stunned; dazed: He knocked me silly.
- : Cricket. extremely close to the batsman's wicket: silly mid off.
- : Archaic. rustic; plain; homely.
- : Archaic. weak; helpless.
- : Obsolete. lowly in rank or state; humble.
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plural sil·lies.
- : Informal. a silly or foolish person: Don't be such a silly.
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The adjective silly describes behavior or people that lack good sense, or things that are absurd or irrational. Do you know when to use silly, fatuous, foolish, inane, stupid, and asinine? Find out on Thesaurus.com.
Examples
Claiming that people with protruding ears were naturally weak-willed, for example, would seem plain silly.
Well, back in the early 1200s, the original sense of silly was “blessed” or, more accurately, “spiritually blessed.”
That may sound a bit silly, but often we’re in a culture where people think a scientist or mathematician has to be the crazy person locked up in a room working by ourselves.
Sometimes my friends ask questions that they’re afraid are silly.
I suspect when we look back in 100 years, or maybe even 50 years, we’ll be astonished at how silly many of the ideas we currently hold near and dear to our hearts are actually wrong.
Forget those silly “games played with the ball”; they are far “too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.”
Aside from reaching an international audience, leaving Oz had another benefit—no more silly intrusions into her privacy.
It is loathed by some critics who find it patronizing, silly, and superficial.
So, happy 20th birthday to this proudly silly fashion classic.
It was sexy, silly, and—in those relatively modest times—sensational.
If he would take her a little more seriously—it 's an immense pity he married her because she was silly!