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.
Definitions
- noun. Happy; fortunate; blessed.
- noun. Harmless; innocent; inoffensive.
- noun. Weak; helpless; frail.
- noun. Rustic; plain; simple; humble.
- noun. Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.
- noun. Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.
- noun. a word used for misbehaving children
"don't be a silly"
- adjective. dazed from or as if from repeated blows
"knocked silly by the impact"
"slaphappy with exhaustion"
- adjective. inspiring scornful pity- Dashiell Hammett
"how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"
- adjective. lacking seriousness; given to frivolity
"a dizzy blonde"
"light-headed teenagers"
- adjective. ludicrous, foolish
"gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"
"wore a goofy hat"
Synonyms
slaphappy, pathetic, ridiculous, airheaded, dizzy, featherbrained, giddy, lightheaded, cockamamie, cockamamy, goofy, sappy, wacky, whacky, zany
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in silly:
Common word forms
sillier, sillies, sillily, silliest
Words from these letters
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