Sillily

Quick meaning: Sillily is an adverb meaning (dated or hypercorrect) In a silly manner; foolishly.

Meaning

(dated or hypercorrect) In a silly manner; foolishly.

Example Sentences

Even 'Che Isa [...] had behaved sillily, making up to married men.

The man walked down the street so sillily that many a bystander stopped and stared slack-jawed.

It was a fish-trap—just a ring of reeds set up in the water with only one little opening in it, and in this opening, just below the water, were stuck reeds slanting the way of the river's flow, so that the fish, when they had swum sillily in, sillily couldn't get out again.

Word Forms

• sillyly

Synonyms for sillily

Depending on context, synonyms include silly.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sillyly, slily, asininely, simply, foolishly, sicklily.

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