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Definition of Silly
Silly

Happy; fortunate; blessed.

Harmless; innocent; inoffensive.

Weak; helpless; frail.

Rustic; plain; simple; humble.

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.

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Silly Quotations

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
Richard Aldington

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
Ronald Reagan

He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
Cab Calloway

Silly Translations

silly in Italian is stolto, sciocco
silly in Latin is leviculus
silly in Spanish is tonto, necio
silly in Swedish is dumt, dum, enfaldig

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