Another word for silly
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Adjective
Displaying a complete lack of forethought and good sense
- Lacking intelligence or wit; foolish.
- Having or exhibiting a lack of judgment or conviction.
- Foolish; silly.
- Of less than normal intellect. Not in scientific use.
- Having or displaying a lack or small amount of intelligence.
- Lacking sense or meaning; meaningless.
- Deficient in sense; foolish or stupid.
- Unconscious, usually as a result of physical trauma.
- Lacking intelligence or good sense; foolish.
- Having no intelligent purpose, meaning, or direction:
- Giving or showing little attention or care; heedless:
- Lacking sensation or awareness; inanimate.
- Unconscious.
- Lacking sensibility; unfeeling:
- Lacking or exhibiting a lack of good sense or judgment; silly:
- Capable of arousing laughter; absurd or ridiculous:
- Embarrassed; abashed:
- Foolish or silly, especially in a smug or self-satisfied way:
- Unintelligent; stupid.
So senseless as to be laughable
- Eccentric or irrational:
- Crazy; silly:
- Excessively sentimental; mawkish.
- Silly or foolish.
- Full of sap.
- Characterized by jerks or jerking:
- Foolish; silly:
- Dazed or lethargic, as if drugged.
- Stupid; doltish:
- Silly; foolish:
- Not sensible; foolish.
- Having the quality or fragrance of balm; soothing.
- Mild and pleasant:
- Eccentric in behavior.
- Consisting of or having many loops:
- Crazy or eccentric:
- Offbeat or bizarre:
- Extremely foolish or silly.
- Mentally deranged; crazy.
- A foolish or crazy person.
- Mentally deranged.
- Possessed by enthusiasm or excitement:
- Immoderately fond; infatuated:
- Foolish; ridiculous; absurd:
- Askew; crooked.
- Intoxicated; drunk.
- Comical or ludicrous because of incongruity or strangeness.
- A comical person given to extravagant or outlandish behavior.
- A ludicrous, buffoonish character in old comedies who attempts feebly to mimic the tricks of the clown.
- Not of this earth; preternatural; supernatural.
- Unnaturally strange and frightening.
- Ridiculously unreasonable or uncustomary; absurd:
- A stupid or foolish person.
- Extremely foolish or stupid.
- Lacking judgment, realism, or firmness.
- Contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd.
- Lacking intelligible meaning:
- Foolish; absurd:
- Showing foolishness or stupidity.
- Exhibiting mild intellectual disability. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
- Angry; resentful:
- Mentally deranged:
- Characteristic of mental derangement:
- A person who is affected by lunacy; a mentally deranged person.
- A very foolish person.
- Affected by lunacy; mentally deranged.
- Of, exhibiting, or afflicted with mental derangement. Not used in psychiatric diagnosis.
- Characteristic of or associated with persons who are mentally deranged:
- Intended for use by such persons:
- Showing foolishness or stupidity.
- Exhibiting profound mental retardation. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
- Having or showing little sense; foolish:
- Lacking or exhibiting a lack of good sense or judgment; silly:
- Capable of arousing laughter; absurd or ridiculous:
- Embarrassed; abashed:
- Extremely unreasonable, incongruous, or inappropriate:
- Impossible to take seriously; silly:
- Of, relating to, or manifesting the view that there is no order or meaning in human life or in the universe.
Given to lighthearted silliness
- Having a whirling sensation and a tendency to fall.
- Bewildered or confused:
- Scatterbrained or silly.
- Silly; crazy.
- Completely absorbed, infatuated, or excited:
- Senile; doddering.
- Having the qualities of a scatterbrain.
- absent-minded, forgetful, distractable.
- Not being burdened by trouble, worry, or care; happy and carefree.
- Having or showing little sense; foolish:
- Having a reeling, lightheaded sensation; dizzy.
- Causing or capable of causing dizziness:
- Frivolous and lighthearted; flighty:
- Made of, covered with, or resembling froth; foamy.
- Playfully frivolous in character or content:
- Unworthy of serious attention; trivial:
- Inappropriately silly:
- Given to capricious or unstable behavior.
- Characterized by irresponsible or silly behavior.
- Easily excited; skittish.
- Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
- Lacking sense or discretion; scatterbrained.
See also:
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Another word for silly
Modifier
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- Silly; ridiculous:
- Having the right foot forward when riding a board such as a skateboard or snowboard:
- In a stance in which the right foot is forward:
- Excessively sentimental; mawkish.
- Silly or foolish.
- Full of sap.
- Eccentric or scatterbrained:
- Not sensible; foolish.
- Immature, especially in being silly or trivial; childish.
- Belonging to childhood; juvenile.
- Measuring little from bottom to top or surface; lacking physical depth.
- Lacking depth of intellect, emotion, or knowledge:
- Marked by insufficient inhalation of air; weak:
- Of little significance or value.
- Concerned with or involving unimportant matters; superficial:
- Of, relating to, or being the solution of an equation in which every variable is equal to zero.
- Unworthy of serious attention; trivial:
- Inappropriately silly:
- Having a reeling, lightheaded sensation; dizzy.
- Causing or capable of causing dizziness:
- Frivolous and lighthearted; flighty:
- Lacking sense or substance:
- Contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd.
- So absurd or incongruous as to be laughable.
- Contradicting or disregarding the principles of logic.
- Without logic; senseless.
- Lacking intelligence; stupid or empty-headed.
- Devoid of substance or meaning; vapid or inane:
- Devoid of expression; vacant:
- Lacking sense or discretion; scatterbrained.
- Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
- Unintelligent; stupid.
- Having or showing little sense; foolish:
- Extremely unreasonable, incongruous, or inappropriate:
- Impossible to take seriously; silly:
- Of, relating to, or manifesting the view that there is no order or meaning in human life or in the universe.
- Utterly stupid or silly:
- Of, relating to, or resembling an ass.
- Slow to learn or understand; obtuse.
- Tending to make poor decisions or careless mistakes.
- Marked by a lack of intelligence or care; foolish or careless:
- Not endowed with reason.
- Affected by loss of usual or normal mental clarity; incoherent, as from shock.
- Marked by a lack of accord with reason or sound judgment:
- Not governed by or based on reason:
- Exceeding reasonable limits; immoderate:
- Foolish or silly, especially in a smug or self-satisfied way:
- Lacking or exhibiting a lack of good sense or judgment; silly:
- Capable of arousing laughter; absurd or ridiculous:
- Embarrassed; abashed:
- Lacking intelligible meaning:
- Foolish; absurd:
- Deserving or inspiring ridicule; absurd, preposterous, or silly.
- Lacking sense or meaning; meaningless.
- Deficient in sense; foolish or stupid.
- Unconscious, usually as a result of physical trauma.
Synonym Study
- Asinine implies the extreme stupidity conventionally attributed to an ass an asinine argument See also syn. study at absurd.
- Fatuous suggests stupidity, inanity, or obtuseness coupled with a smug complacency a fatuous smile
- Stupid implies a slow-wittedness or lack of normal intelligence he is stupid to believe that
- Silly implies ridiculous or irrational behavior that demonstrates a lack of common sense, good judgment, or sobriety it was silly of you to dress so lightly
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