Definition of Silly

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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

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 didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
Jackie Kennedy

I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.
Jeff Foxworthy

It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.
Arsene Wenger

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
Zsa Zsa Gabor

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.
Bruce Springsteen

I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.
Bruce Springsteen

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
Democritus

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
Red Skelton

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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