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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

... any great sickenesse amongst them. Whereby it seemeth, that either his prelacy did much abuse him in perswading him to hopes, whereof after two or three dayes he saw no semblance: or he like a silly louer, who promiseth himselfe fauor by importuning a coy mistresse, thought by our long being before his towne, that in the end taking pity on him, they would ...

— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, v. 7 - England's Naval Exploits Against Spain • Richard Hakluyt

... but there is always some part of the Self unmanifested; and always, as it seems, some power of organic expression in abeyance or reserve."[355] Much of the content of this larger background against which our conscious being stands out in relief is insignificant. Imperfect memories, silly jingles, inhibitive timidities, "dissolutive" phenomena of various sorts, as Myers calls them, enters into it for a large part. But in it many of the performances of genius seem also to have their ...

— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James

... handkerchief, and put hand No. 2 softly on Foker's head, which was bent down kissing and weeping over hand No. 1. "Foolish boy!" she said, "it shall be loved as it deserves: who could help loving such a silly creature?" ...

— The History of Pendennis, Vol. 2 - His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy • William Makepeace Thackeray

... rough,—and silly, too, with his radical nonsense, paying a shilling a week to a nasty Union just for nothing. Still he means well, and there ain't a man who works harder for his wife and children;—that I will say of him. And if ...

— Phineas Finn - The Irish Member • Anthony Trollope

... self-conscious. I would not tell of it to you if I did not want you to understand how alive I am to my utter impossibilities, how resolved I am to do anything so that I may be able to serve. But never mind about silly me; let me tell you how I see ...

— Soul of a Bishop • H. G. Wells

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