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

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

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

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
Gertrude Stein

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

I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.
Norman Rockwell

My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.
Mike Myers

And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.
Mike Myers

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

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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