Silly
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- exhibiting or indicative of a lack of common sense or sound judgment
// a very silly mistake - weak in intellect
// acting like a silly fool - playfully lighthearted and amusing
// a silly sense of humor - TRIFLING, FRIVOLOUS
// a silly waste of time - being stunned or dazed
// scared silly
// knocked me silly
- exhibiting or indicative of a lack of common sense or sound judgment
- aarchaic : RUSTIC, PLAIN
// The silly buckets on the deck,/That had so long remained,/I dreamt that they were filled with dew;/And when I awoke, it rained.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge - obsolete : lowly in station : HUMBLE
- archaic : HELPLESS, WEAK
