Dictionary Entry
silly
silly is a 5-letter English word with 11 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Happy; fortunate; blessed. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 9 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Happy; fortunate; blessed.
- 2noun
Harmless; innocent; inoffensive.
- 3noun
Weak; helpless; frail.
- 4noun
Rustic; plain; simple; humble.
- 5noun
Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.
- 6noun
Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.
- 7noun
a word used for misbehaving children
"don't be a silly"
- 8adjective
dazed from or as if from repeated blows
"knocked silly by the impact"
"slaphappy with exhaustion"
Synonyms
- 9adjective
inspiring scornful pity- Dashiell Hammett
"how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"
Synonyms
- 10adjective
lacking seriousness; given to frivolity
"a dizzy blonde"
"light-headed teenagers"
- 11adjective
ludicrous, foolish
"gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"
"wore a goofy hat"
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