Silly

Definition: Silly

Silly

Adjective

1. (informal terms) "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books".

2. Lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles".

3. Inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett.

4. (informal) dazed from or as if from repeated blows; "knocked silly by the impact"; "slaphappy with exhaustion".

Noun

1. A word used for misbehaving children; "don't be a silly".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "silly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Silly \Sil"ly\, adjective. [Comparative Sillier; superlative Silliest.]. (references)

Literature

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Silly

Credulity

Adjective: credulous, gullible; easily deceived; simple, green, soft, childish, silly, stupid; easily convinced; over-credulous, over confident, over trustful; infatuated,Adjective: credulous, gullible; easily deceived; simple, green, soft, childish, silly, stupid; easily convinced; over-credulous, over confident, over trustful; infatuated, superstitious; confiding; (believing).

Falsehood

Adverb: falsely; Adjective: a la tartufe, with a double tongue; silly; (cunning).

Imbecility Folly

Foolish, silly, senseless, irrational, insensate, nonsensical, inept; maudlin.

Foolish, unwise, injudicious, improper, unreasonable, without reason, ridiculous, absurd, idiotic, silly, stupid, asinine; ill-imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised; mal entendu; inconsistent, irrational, unphilosophical; extravagant; (nonsensical); sleeveless, idle; pointless, useless; inexpedient; frivolous; (trivial).

Insanity

Imbecile, silly,.

Crosswords: Silly

This ending's silly. Why would the courtesan go for the penniless writer (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)

I have nothing to do with your silly war. (Seven Years in Tibet; writing credit: Becky Johnston)

It was silly and unkind, and I shouldn't have said it. But I do wish you'd stop talking (Brief Encounter; writing credit: David Lean, written by Noel Coward, Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, and Ronald Neame.)

So, you think you could outclever us french folks with your silly, knees-bent, running-about, advancing behavior (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.)

Oh this silly little black dress, these silly little boots and these silly liPanties (Bridget Jones's Diary; writing credit: Helen Fielding)

Silly little games you will be playing (Untitled; performing artist: D'Angelo)

Oh silly me, why haven't I found another ("Bills, Bills, Bills"; performing artist: Destiny's Child)

I’m only a man in a silly red sheet (Superman; performing artist: Five For Fighting)

Doin silly things for you (I think that I'm in love with you; performing artist: Jessica Simpson)

Chances are 'cause I wear a silly grin ("Chances Are"; performing artist: Johnny Mathis)

My "check engine" light came on the other day. I popped the hood, and looked, the engine is STILL there! Silly light. (references; author: unknown)

Seven Santas sang silly songs. (references; author: unknown)

Silly Science (1960)

Saddle Silly (1941)

Silly Seals (1938)

In the Silly Summertime (1921)

A Silly Sultan (1916)

SILLY LOVE SONGS (performing artist: PAUL MCCARTNEY & WINGS)

Silly Love Songs (performing artist: Wings)

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Books

• 696 Silly School Jokes and Riddles (reference)

• The Seven Silly Eaters (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Richard Scarry's Best Silly Stories and Songs Video Ever! (reference)

• Walt Disney Treasures - Silly Symphonies (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Silly Songs (reference)

• Veggie Tales: Silly Songs With Larry (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Passengers were swarming out and bothering the conductor and engineer with silly questions. Credit: Library of Congress.

Did yah quor'le wit 'im? : Aw! coatin' po'try 'bout th' silly ol' ocean! : is that any ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Harry Braham in his original specialty, Silly Bill and father. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It is well known how the monks wrote silly lives of Catholic Saints over the manuscripts on which the classical works of ancient heathendom had been written. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Men of sense, whatever you may chuse to say, do not want silly wives

Silly is he who dreads it

He answered the greeting and saw a silly smile break over the face in the doorway

But he did have the right of first comment, no matter how silly his old mind might be.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

I know this sounds silly, but I can get ready in the morning much more quickly because I don't have to spend 30 minutes sneezing. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "silly": be knocked silly ♦ be silly ♦ be up to some silly lark ♦ become silly ♦ laugh oneself silly ♦ silly bugger ♦ silly custom ♦ silly dope ♦ silly goose ♦ silly idea ♦ silly idiot ♦ silly little fool ♦ silly mood ♦ silly person ♦ silly plough ♦ silly ploughing ♦ silly plow ♦ silly plowing ♦ silly prank ♦ silly remark ♦ silly season ♦ silly talk ♦ silly talker ♦ silly thing ♦ silly walk ♦ you silly ass!. Additional references.

Beginning with "silly": silly-billy, silly-buggers, silly-like, silly-little-me-late-again-ish, silly-looking, silly-mid-scone, silly-point, silly-season, Silly-willie.

Ending with "silly": don't-be-silly, oh-dave-you-silly, s-silly.

Albanian

budalla (anserine, anserous, asinine, ass, blunderhead, booby, brainless, cabbage-head, chuckle-head, clod, cloddish, clod-poll, cockeyed, daft, dense, Dick, dim witted, dimwit, dumb, dumbbell, fathead, fool, gaby, gaga, goof, goofy, goon, Goosey, gowk, half wit, idiot, idle-headed, imbecile, jobbernowl, jolterhead, josser, juggins, loon, mindless, moke, muff, mutton head, mutton-headed, nerd, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nut, owl, pin head, pumpkin-head, sheep's head, slow witted, softhead, soft-headed, softy, spoony, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, witless). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فارغ (barren, blank, empty, flatulent, hollow, idle, inane, leisure, meaningless, pointless, senseless, stupid, vacuous, vain, windy), ‏مغفل (dense, dolt, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, dupe, fat-witted, fool, foolish, licentious, moronic, mutton-headed, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numskull, pointless, rubbishy, simple, simple minded, simpleton, soft-headed, softy, stupid, thick-headed, weak-minded), ‏مضحك (buffoon, burlesque, clown, comedian, comic, comical, comics, droll, farcical, foolish, funny, harlequin, humorous, jester, laughable, laughing, ludicrous, merry andrew, ridiculous, risible, wag), ‏تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless), ‏سخيف (absurd, childish, daft, dotty, fatuous, foolish, inept, ridiculous, spoony, tomfool), ‏ساذج (artless, credulous, drip, gaga, gimp, green, guileless, gullible, honest, ingenuous, innocent, mug, naive, ninny, oafish, pastoral, patsy, platitudinous, primitive, provincial, simple, unsophisticated, untutored, unworldly), ‏أبله (asinine, ass, brainless, coot, cuckoo, daw, dense, dim witted, dullard, fatuous, feeble minded, gaga, gawky, goofy, half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, lemon, mad, patsy, screwed, sheepish, sod, sodden, softy, soppy, stick in the mud, stupid, vacant, vacuous, wood-headed), ‏شخص أحمق (birdbrained, block, bonehead, half wit, nitwit, nut, sap), ‏بليد (bovine, dim, doltish, dopey, dull, inanimate, lethargic, light minded, lumpish, obtuse, passive, sleepy, slow, slow moving, sluggish, stupid, thick-headed, torpid, unworkable), ‏بسيط (attic, chaste, crude, down to earth, elementary, homely, honest, innocent, low-browed, lowly, mere, modest, naive, natural, pastoral, petty, plain, primitive, provincial, rustic, simple, simple minded, sparing, straightforward, unaffected, unpretentious, unsophisticated, unvarnished, with distortion), ‏بارد (bleak, boring, chilly, cold, coldish, cool, coolly, dank, distant, flat, glacial, meaningless, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, raw, unfriendly, wintry). (various references)

Bulgarian 

глупчо (cuckoo, pin head), глупак (bird brained, blinker, boeotian, bonehead, boob, booby, calf, chuckle-head, clod, clot, coot, dodo, dotterel, driveler, dummy, fathead, flat, fool, gaby, gawk, goof, goon, gowk, greenhorn, gull, hammerhead, jackass, jobbernowl, lack-brain, lame brain, leather-head, lunkhead, muggins, mutt, mutton head, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, nutter, oaf, pudding-head, pumpkin-head, sap, sap-head, schmo, schnook, sheep's head, simp, simple, simpleton, spoon, stupe, stupid, thickhead, tomfool, twit, witling, wittol, zany, zombie), глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, hebetate, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, senseless, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed), наивник (greenhorn, jay, patsy, rube, sitter), наивен (artless, fond, green, guileless, gullible, ingenuous, jejune, naпve, naif, simple, undesigning, unsophisticated, untutored, unworldly, wide-eyed), зашеметен (besotted, dizzy, muzzy, vertiginous), замаян (dizzy, giddy, groggy, light, light-headed, poppied, punch-drunk, rocky, woozy), безпомощен (feckless, helpless, lost, shiftless, stranded, unable). (various references)

Chinese 

糊塗 (muddled), 笨 (clumsy, foolish, slow-witted, stupid), 痴 (foolish, imbecile, sentimental, stupid), 惛 (confused, forgetful), 憨 (simple-minded), 愚蠢 , 傻. (various references)

Czech

hloupý (awkward, brainless, cretinous, daft, dull, empty headed, fatuous, fat-witted, foolish, half-witted, inane, lame brain, logy, mutton-headed, soft-brained, spoony, stupid, thick, thickskulled). (various references)

Danish

spaghettispray (silly string aerosol), hyppeplov til vinranker (silly plough, silly plow), hypning af vinranker (silly ploughing, silly plowing). (various references)

Dutch

silly string (silly string aerosol), onkruidploeg (silly plough, silly plow), onkruid omploegen (silly ploughing, silly plowing), komkommertijd (gooseberry season, silly season). (various references)

Farsi 

نادان (Asinine, Fool, Ignorant, Inept, Simple, Unlettered, Untaught, Unwise, Yokel), چرند (Baloney, Bilk, Corny, Crap, Hokum, Inane, Jive, Ludicrous, Nonsensical, Rigmarole, Shenanigan, Stuff, Trashy, Unmeaning, Windy), سبک مغز (Harebrained, Idiot, Imbecile), احمقانه (Highland, Infatuate, Insane, Puerile, Senseless, Spoony), ابله (Asinine, Blister, Dolt, Doodle, Doter, Fool, Imbecile, Mome, Screwball, Simpleton). (various references)

Finnish

tyhmä (addled, dense, dull, foolish, stupid, thick-headed, unwise), tomppelimainen (foolish), hupsu (crazy, dunce, foolish, idiotic, simpleton), hassu (crazy, foolish, mad). (various references)

French

stupide, sot (simple), ridicule, naïf (simple, simple minded), imbécile, idiot, godiche, bête. (various references)

German

zickig, töricht (foolish, foolishly, idle, imbecile, imbecilic, misguided, misguidedly, mistaken, stupid, vain), tölpelhaft (foolish, gauche, gauchely, lubberly, oafish), närrisch (clownish, foolish, harebrained, mad, madly, scatty), läppisch (fiddling, footling), dussel (boob, dope, goof, goon, lemon, muddler, mutt, mutts, ninny, sucker, twerp, twit), dumm (addled, asinine, blockish, brainless, dull, dully, dumb, fatuous, foolish, footling, ignorant, imbecile, imbecilic, inane, inanely, oafish, obtuse, purblindly, stupid, stupidly, thick, thumb, unintelligent), blöd (cruddy, daft, dense, densely, dopey, funny, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, naff, stupid, stupidly, zanily, zany), albern (absurd, addled, clownish, fatuous, fatuously, foolish, footling, giggly, inane, inanely, ludicrous, ridiculous, simper, simpering, simperingly, stupid), affig (affected, apish, apishly, arty, conceited, La-di-da, ludicrous, ridiculous, stuck up, too-too). (various references)

Greek 

σαχλόσ (mawkish, namby-pamby, prosy, punk, soppy, vapid), χαζός (bozo, dumb, fool, foolish, stupid), ανόητοσ (blithering, daft, fatuous, fool, foolish, goofy, idiot, inane, inept, insensate, insipient, knighterrantry, ninny, nitwit, nonsensical, sappy, senseless, slap happy, unwise, witless), ανόητος (nonsensical, senseless). (various references)

Hebrew 

שוטה (barmy, brainless, daft, dolt, dupe, fool, idiot, imbecile, noodle, oaf, sappy, stupid), פותה (foolish, hole for a hinge, naןve, opening, pudenda, simple, vagina, vulva), אוילי (asinine, dense, fatuous, foolish, preposterous, sottish, stupid), אויל (evil person, fool, prattler, sot, stupid), חסר דעה (ament, fool, madman, senseless, witless), הדיוטי (foolish, ignorant), טפשי (anserine, dim witted, foolish, senseless, stupid, thickheaded, witless), טפש (fool, goof, goofy, imbecile, nonsensical, simpleton, stupid, unwise). (various references)

Hungarian

ostoba (asinine, bird brained, blockish, brainless, Daffy, doltish, dry, dumb, dump, dunce, fatuous, feeble minded, goofy, hulking, idiotic, inane, inept, lack-brain, lame brain, loggerheaded, Looby, numb-skull, numskull, oafish, owlish, preposterous, puerile, simple, simple minded, simpleton, slow, sot, stupid, thick-headed, to cut capers, tomfool, witless, wooden-headed), hülye (blithering, bozo, clot, cretin, dead above the ears, Dotty, gaga, goofy, goon, half wit, half-wit, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, jake, jay, klutz, moonstruck, moron, moronic, mutt, mutton-head, nerd, nitwit, nurd, nutter, oafish, sap-head, schmo, shmo, stupid, vacuous, wacko, wart), buta (addled, anserine, blunt, bovine, brainless, dead above the ears, dim-witted, doltish, dull, dumb, fatuous, foolish, loggerheaded, mindless, simple minded, stupid, to be out of one's skull, unwise, zombie). (various references)

Indonesian

tolol (balmy, idiotic), pandir (gaga, stupid), bebal (chump, dumb). (various references)

Italian

sciocco (addled, booby, daffy, daft, doltish, featherbrain, fool, foolish, goofy, Gotham, inane, Looby, loon, ludicrous, nincompoop, nitwit, noodle, sap, simper, soppy, spoony, stupid). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

愚 (foolish, stupid), 他愛無い (absurd, childish, easy, foolish, guileless, trifling), 他愛ない (absurd, childish, easy, foolish, guileless, trifling). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たわいない (absurd, childish, easy, foolish, guileless, trifling), ぐ (foolish, ingredients, means, stupid, tool). (various references)

Korean 

어리석은 (ridiculous, stupid). (various references)

Manx

thootagh (gauche, idiotic, lubberly, namby-pamby, oafish, tactless), sou- (mad, prefix mad, pseudo-), ommidjagh (absurd, brainless, crackpot, fatuous, foolish, idiotic, imbecile, madcap, nonsensical, scatter-brained), meecheeayllagh (absurd, half-witted, idiot, imbecile, mad, nonsensical, simple, unadvised), bolvaneagh (foolish, senseless, stupid). (various references)

Pig Latin

illysay.(various references)

Portuguese

tolo (addle-brained, addled, corny, cuddy, daft, dull, finical, fool, foolish, gaby, goat, gowk, gull, hard-hearted, inept, insane, insensate, looby, loony, mad, madman, naïve, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwit, pigeon, pumpkin-head, screwy, simpleton, softhead, softy, spoon, spoony, stock, stupe, stupid, tomfool, tom-noddy, vacuous, wacky, witless), pateta (batty, booby, calf, chuckle-head, chump, clod-poll, coot, cracky, crazy, cuddy, daft, dolt, doodle, driveller, dumb, dupe, fanny, fat-head, fool, gander, gawk, goof, goofy, goose, idiot, jackanapes, jay, jolterhead, josser, juggins, know-nothing, loggerhead, looby, lubber-head, lummox, mooncalf, mutt, mutton-headed, natural, nincompoop, ninny, ninny-hammer, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, oaf, poop, prodigy, pudding-head, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, sawney, simp, simpleton, slob, softhead, softy, spoony, stupid, sucker, tomfool, tom-noddy, zany), idiota (fat-head, fool, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, jay, jerk, jolterhead, mooncalf, moron, natural, numskull, oaf, prodigy, slaphappy, softhead, stupid, sucker, tomfool), estúpido (addle-brained, addled, ass, blockhead, blockish, blunderer, blunderhead, boeotian, booby, bovine, chuckle-head, chump, crass, dense, dim-witted, dolt, dull, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, fat-head, fatuous, featherbrained, fool, foolish, goofy, jolterhead, lubber, lubber-head, lubberly, lumpish, mindless, mutton-head, mutton-headed, numskull, oafish, obtuse, pigheaded, slow, stock, stupe, stupid, thick-headed, thick-skulled, thick-witted, unintelligent, vacuous), burro (ass, donkey, dull, fool, idiot, ignoramus, jackass, moke, mule, neddy, stupid), bobo (buffoon, clown, droll, fool, goof, gull, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, jerk, jester, lout, merry andrew, ninny, ninny-hammer, pantaloon, scaramouch, stupid, zany), apalermado (backward). (various references)

Romanian

stupid (doltish, dull, dull-witted, foolish, foolishly, Goosey, idiotic, idiotical, idle, inane, inept, insipid, mindless, senseless, stupid, stupidly, wooden-headed), slab (adynamic, angular, bad, cold, cranky, crazy, dicky, dim, Dotty, dull, faint, faintly, feckless, feeble, feebly, female, flabby, flaccid, flat, fleshless, flimsy, footless, forceless, frail, gaunt, groggy, helpless, impotent, inner, jaded, jejune, languid, languishing, languorous, lax, lean, Lenten, light, loose, low, meager, meagre, mean, mild, milk and water, namby-pamby, nerveless, one horse, pale, peaked, penny-a-line, pimping, poor, poorly, powerless, quiet, remotely, rickety, scraggy, scrawny, shaky, sickly, skinny, slack, slight, small, soft, sorry, spare, squeal, stringent, tender, thin, washy, weak, weakly), sãrac cu duhul (empty headed), nepriceput (blockhead, illiterate, incapable, inefficient, inexperienced, inexpert, novice, slouch, unskilful, unskilled), aiurit (blunder-head, distracted, distraught, driveller, drivelling, flighty, foolish, giddy, hare-brained, irresponsible, light-headed, muddle-head, nut, oddball, scatterbrain, scatterbrains, thoughtless, twaddling, whiffler, wool gathering, wrongheaded), ameţit (bewildered, confounded, dizzy, flustered, giddy, groggy, inebriate, intoxicated, moony, muzzy, queer, screwed, squiffy, stupid, tipsy, wild), bleg (blockhead, dolt, drooping, flabby, flaccid, foolish, half hearted, remiss, sheepish, shy, skulker, sloppy, sluggish, timid, weak, weakly), nãtâng (blockhead, clumsy, dead from the neck, Dotty, driveller, duffer, dummy, dunce, fat-head, feather-brained, foolish, noddy, tomfool, wet, zombie), nãtãfleţ (blockhead, duffer, foolish, mug, pigeon, spoony), nãuc (bewildered, blockhead, crazy, dumbfounded, dunderhead, flurried, foolish, giddy), naiv (artless, credulous, deceivable, dupable, dupe, green, gull, gullible, naïve, naif, puerile, simple minded, simpleton, sincere, verdant), absurd (absurd, absurdity, absurdly, Dotty, fabulous, foolish, impossible, inept, irrational, ludicrous, mad, mindless, nonsensical, piffling, preposterous, recondite, ridiculous, stupid, temerarious, unreasonable), neisprãvit (blockhead, callow, dolt, dunce, dunderhead, endless, rotter, undergrown, unfinished), zãpãcit (confounded, confused, dawdler, dim, distracted, dizzy, flighty, giddy, hare-brained, headless, light-headed, madcap, muddle-headed, mused, muzzy, off one's dot, perplexedly, rash, reckless, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatterbrains, thoughtless, topsy turvy, woolly-headed, wronghead, wrongheaded), neputincios (helpless, impotent, impuissant, incapable, infirm, limp, nerveless, palsied, shiftless, slight), nevinovat (blameless, chaste, childlike, harmless, immaculate, innocent, not guilty, pure, sackless, simple, white), prost (ass, bad, badly, beef-witted, blinkard, blockhead, blunt, booby, calf, cheap, clumsy, cock eyed, common, dead, dolt, doltish, donkey, dull, dullard, dumb, dunce, dunderhead, flat, fool, foolish, good for nothing, goof, goon, goose, Goosey, gull, harmful, idiot, idiotish, inhospitable, lousy, lubber-head, miserable, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, nitwitted, noddy, noodle, numskull, numskulled, oaf, oafish, pin head, poor, poorly, simple, simpleton, snipe, soft, soft-headed, sorry, spoony, stupid, thoughtless, unfavorable, unfavourable, wretched, zombie), prostesc (anile, crazy, fatuous, flim-flam, foolish, idiotic, idiotical, idle, insensate, nonsensical, stupid, witless), neghiob (blockhead, booby, clumsy, dolt, dullard, foolish, lubber-head, sheep, sheepish, simpleton, stupid, zany). (various references)

Russian 

глупый (anserine, apish, asinine, barmy, beef-witted, blockish, bovine, brain dead, brainless, cloddish, daft, dense, doddery, drippy, fatuous, fat-witted, featherbrain, featherbrained, feather-brained, foolish, gaga, goofy, harebrained, idle-headed, inane, inept, mindless, mutton-headed, nitwitted, nonsensical, oafish, sappy, simple-minded, soft-headed, spoony, stupid, thickskulled, thick-skulled, thick-witted, timber-headed, unwise, wooden-headed). (various references)

Scottish

saobh (erroneous, erroneous : saobh-chreideamh, wrong), leamh (foolish, impertinent, insipid), gòrach (foolish, thoughtless, unwise), faoin (foolish, unwise, vain, void). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zvekan (fool), tupan (lame brain, witling), prostodušan (openhearted, simple minded, simpleminded), nedotupavan (stupid), luckast (anserine, comical, crack-brained, dotty, light-headed), glup (anserine, asinine, brainless, calvish, cloddish, dense, dozy, dull, dumb, fat-witted, jerk, obtuse, sheepish, stupid, unintelligent). (various references)

Spanish

tonto (ass, cabbagehead, calvish, clod-poll, crass, crazed, cretin, dimwit, dink, dispensary, dummy, dunderhead, fool, foolish, greaseproof paper, harebrained, idiot, idiotic, idleheaded, jenny ass, lemon, loose, nonsensical, numbhead, pinhead, simple minded, soft, soft-headed, soppy, spoony, stupid, unwise, wall eyed, witless). (various references)

Swedish

enfaldig (asinine, empty headed, fatuous, foolish, innocent, simple, simple minded, soft-headed), dum (addled, bird brained, blithering, crass, daft, dense, doltish, dopey, dopy, dumb, empty headed, fatuous, fool, foolish, goofy, half-witted, idiotic, idle-headed, insensate, lumpish, nitwitted, oafish, opaque, phoney, rattle-brained, rattle-headed, rattle-pated, sappy, stupid, witless). (various references)

Thai

ไร้สาระ (boche, bosh, cack, chuff, cobblers, codswallop, guff), โง่ (brainless, dipstick, dizzy, dull, dumb, foolish, lumpish, muddle-headed, nerdy, oafish, simple, simple-minded, stockish, thick, thickheaded, thick-witted), น่าเวทนา, อ่อนแอ (droop, effete, enfeebled, epicene, namby-pamby, rickety), คนโง่ (apeth, berk, birdbrain, bozo, chucklehead, chump, clod, clodpole, div, doughnut, dove, dummy, dunce, featherbrain, fool, half-wit, ignoramus, loon, muddlehead, mug, muggins, muppet, mut, nerd, nincompoop, nit, noddy, oaf, schlepp, simp, simple, simpleton, thicko), มึน. (various references)

Turkish

sersem (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, clod, dizzy, dope, dozy, dull, dullard, foggy, foolish, giddy, gunsel, happy, light-headed, muddleheaded, muzzy, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, oaf, oafish, opaque, scatterbrain, scatterbrained, scatty, sheepish, slob, stupid, woozy), salak (country bumpkin, crazy, cretin, dimwitted, dolt, doltish, dope, dopey, fool, gullible, idiot, jerky, ninny, obtuse, stupid, sucker), şapşal (a button short, raunchy, sloven, slovenly), aptal (bird brained, birdbrain, booby, cretin, cuckoo, daft, Dotty, drag, dumb, dumb bell, dummy, dunce, fathead, fat-head, fat-headed, fatuous, feeble minded, fool, foolish, gaga, goofy, gormless, half wit, half-witted, harebrained, idiot, idiotic, inane, innocent, lummox, oafish, simp, softhead, softy, stupid, thickheaded, tomfool, twerp, twit). (various references)

Turkmen 

tentek (simpleton, stupid), batnyksyz (meaningless). (various references)

Ukrainian

кволий (ailing, bedrid, crocky, dicky, feeble, fey, languid, nerveless, powerless, puny, ramshackle, spindly, washy, weakly), нерозумний (brute, crack-brained, footling, ill-judged, impolitic, insensate, unreasonable, wacky, witless), здурілий (cuckoo, gaga, muzzy), дурник (half wit, natural, nincompoop, ninny, oaf, omadhaun, pot-head). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tháng 9, người ngớ ngẩn (duffer, jolterhead, noddy, noodle, stupid), người khờ dại (babe, blunderhead, boob, fool, gaby, goosey, greenhorn, half-wit, imbecile, juggins, nincompoop, rattle-brain, scapegrace, sheep's-head, spooney, spoony), ngớ ngẩn (anserine, blunder, dotty, dumb, muddle-headed, muddy-headed, sap-headed, sappy, sillily), ngờ nghệch (sillily, soft, soft-headed), khờ dại choáng váng. (various references)

Welsh

penffol (idiotic), gwirion (innocent), ffo+l (foolish), didoreth (fickle, shiftless). (various references)

excors, fatua, fatuae, fatue, fatui, fatuis, fatuitas, fatuitatem, fatuo, fatuorum, fatuum, fatuus, frivolus, ineptas, infrunitus, leviculus, ridiculi, stultiloquium. (various references)

nice. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"Silly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Csillik, Esally, esili, Islywn, killy, osily, Sallay, sallie, saully, Sbili, scally, sellby, selli, selly, Shillay, shilli, shilly, sialyl, sicly, siily, Silali, silif, Silii, silil, silj, silla, sille, Silley, Sillie, silny, silol, silq, sily, sirly, slipy, slizy, smily, solly, sulley, syll, syllo. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: slily, yills.

-1 letter: ills, illy, lily, sill, syli, yill.

-2 letters: ill, lis, sly.

-3 letters: is, li, si.

+1 letter: idylls, slimly, stilly.

+2 letters: lousily, lustily, misally, psyllid, saltily, shrilly, silkily, sillily, slickly, slimily, solidly, sulkily, surlily, syllabi.

+3 letters: blousily, blowsily, classily, clumsily, disloyal, dismally, distally, elfishly, elvishly, fiscally, flashily, flimsily, flossily, folksily, glassily, glossily, idyllist, illusory, killjoys, lavishly, lissomly, losingly, loyalism, loyalist, mesially, mulishly, owlishly, playlist, plushily, psyllids, psyllium, rallyist, sailorly, sallying, senilely, serially, sibyllic, sicklily, signally, silently, silverly, sinfully, slangily, sleazily, sleepily, slightly, slinkily, sloppily, slushily, socially, spillway, spinally, spirally, stalkily, stellify, stolidly, sulfinyl, sullying, sultrily, syllabic, tinselly, visually, waybills, xylitols.