Word Meanings - SILLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

sely, AS. s, ges, happy, good, fr. s, s, good, happy, s good fortune, happines; akin to OS. salig, a, good, happy, D. zalig blessed, G. selig, OHG. salig, Icel. s, Sw. säll, Dan. salig, Goth. s good, kind, 1. Happy; fortunate; blessed. Chaucer.

Additional info about word: SILLY

sely, AS. s, ges, happy, good, fr. s, s, good, happy, s good fortune, happines; akin to OS. salig, a, good, happy, D. zalig blessed, G. selig, OHG. salig, Icel. s, Sw. säll, Dan. salig, Goth. s good, kind, 1. Happy; fortunate; blessed. Chaucer. 2. Harmless; innocent; inoffensive. "This silly, innocent Custance." Chaucer. The silly virgin strove him to withstand. Spenser. A silly, innocent hare murdered of a dog. Robynson . 3. Weak; helpless; frail. After long storms . . . With which my silly bark was tossed sore. Spenser. The silly buckets on the deck. Coleridge. 4. Rustic; plain; simple; humble. A fourth man, in a sillyhabit. Shak. All that did their silly thoughts so busy keep. Milton. 5. Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman. 6. Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question. Syn. -- Simple; brainless; witless; shallow; foolish; unwise; indiscreet. See Simple.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SILLY)

• Absurd
• Irrational
• ridiculous
• monstrous
• senseless
• asinine
• stupid
• chimerical
• unreasonable
• preposterous
• silly
• nonsensical
• foolish
• Childish
• Weak
• puerile
• infantine
• imbecile
• trifling
• paltry
• trivial
• Daft
• Silly
• innocent
• idiotic
• lunatic
• light-headed
• cracked
• Fond
• Loving
• attached
• affectionate
• weak
• doting
• empty
• enamored
• devoted
• Foolish
• Senseless
• crazed
• shallow
• injudicious
• irrational
• absurd
• contemptible
• objectionable
• witless
• brainless
• simple

Related words: (words related to SILLY)

• LOVAGE
  An umbelliferous plant , sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant. (more info) indigenous to Liguria, lovage, from Ligusticus Ligustine, Ligurian,
• LOVING
  1. Affectionate. The fairest and most loving wife in Greece. Tennyson. 2. Expressing love or kindness; as, loving words.
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• CRACKAJACK
  1. An individual of marked ability or excellence, esp. in some sport; as, he is a crackajack at tennis. 2. A preparation of popped corn, candied and pressed into small cakes.
• IRRATIONAL
  Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd. Syn. -- Absurd; foolish; preposterous; unreasonable; senseless. See Absurd. (more info) 1. Not rational; void of
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• DOTATION
  1. The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman. 2. Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation. Blackstone.
• LOVERWISE
  As lovers do. As they sat down here loverwise. W. D. Howells.
• SILLYHOW
  A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
• DOTISH
  Foolish; weak; imbecile. Sir W. Scott.
• DEVOTIONALLY
  In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
• LOVELILY
  In manner to excite love; amiably. Otway.
• IMBECILE
  Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane. Syn. -- Weak; feeble; feeble-minded; idiotic.
• CRACK-BRAINED
  Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.
• CHILDISH
  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
• INNOCENTLY
  In an innocent manner.
• NONSENSICAL
  Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ly, adv. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ness, n.
• ABSURDNESS
  Absurdity.
• CHIMERICAL
  Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects. Syn. -- Imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wild; unfounded; vain; deceitful; delusive.
• CRACKER STATE
  Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5.
• INDEVOTE
  Not devoted. Bentley. Clarendon.
• SELF-LOVE
  The love of one's self; desire of personal happiness; tendency to seek one's own benefit or advantage. Shak. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope. Syn. -- Selfishness. -- Self-love, Selfishness. The term self-love is used
• SACERDOTAL
  Of or pertaining to priests, or to the order of priests; relating to the priesthood; priesty; as, sacerdotal dignity; sacerdotal functions. The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belongs
• ENDOTHECIUM
  The inner lining of an another cell.
• CLOVEN
  from Cleave, v. t. To show the cloven foot or hoof, to reveal a devilish character, or betray an evil purpose, notwithstanding disguises, -- Satan being represented dramatically and symbolically as having cloven hoofs.
• WIT-CRACKER
  One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak.
• SACERDOTALISM
  The system, style, spirit, or character, of a priesthood, or sacerdotal order; devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order.
• CLOVE
  imp. of Cleave. Cleft. Spenser. Clove hitch See under Hitch. -- Clove hook , an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight.