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词汇 silly
释义 silly
adjective
uk /ˈsɪl.i/ us /ˈsɪl.i/
B1
showing little thought or judgment: 愚蠢的,傻的
Don't do that, you silly boy!不要那么干,你这个傻小子!
a silly mistake愚蠢的错误
silly ofIt was silly of you to go out in the sun without a hat.你不戴帽子顶着太阳出门真是太傻了。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

stupid
stupidSome people are too stupid to realize what's bad for them.
foolishShe was really foolish to quit her job like that.
sillyIt was silly of you to go out in the sun without a hat.
crazyYou'd be absolutely crazy to marry that man.
dumbUSShe was terrified of asking dumb questions.
embarrassed; afraid that people will laugh at you: 尴尬的;担心被他人嘲笑的
I feel silly in this dress.穿这条裙子让我感觉很傻。
Synonym
foolish
B1
not important, serious, or practical: 不重要的;不严肃的;不实际的
She gets upset over such silly things.她会因为这样的小事而难过。
We were served our drinks in these silly little glasses.我们的饮料是盛在这些不实用的小杯子里端上来的。
What's the name of that guy on TV - you know, the American one with the silly voice?
They can't expect me to accommodate all their silly little likes and dislikes.他们别指望我能容忍他们所有那些愚蠢可笑、无足轻重的个人好恶。
Why are you putting on that silly voice?你为什么故意发出那么傻的声音?
I screamed myself silly on the roller coaster.
Seriously now, did he really say that or are you just being silly?现在说正经的,他真的这么说,还是你在瞎编?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stupid and silly
absurd
absurdity
absurdly
adolescent
against your better judgmentidiom
dopey
dopily
dorky
dottiness
dotty
imprudently
in his/her/their wisdomidiom
in someone's infinite wisdomidiom
inadvisable
injudicious
uncritical
uncritically
undiscriminating
unintelligent
unperceptive

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Ashamed and embarrassed
Of little or less importance
Unsuitable and unacceptable
sports specialized
in cricket, relating to the position of a fielder (= a player who tries to stop the other team from scoring by stopping or catching the ball) which is very close to the batter (= the player who tries to hit the ball):
silly mid-offHe caught the ball almost at silly mid-off.
silly mid-onWilkes has his foot on the pitch as he fields at silly mid-on.
silly pointThe captain decided to bring another fielder in close to the wicket and moved himself to silly point.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cricket
12th man
all out
all-rounder
arm ball
asking rate
batting
bowl
eleven
hook
infield
jaffa
king pair
late cut
leg break
strike rate
sundries
switch-hit
tail
tailender
third man

Idioms


drink, laugh, etc. yourself silly
silly billy

silly | American Dictionary


silly
adjective
us/ˈsɪl·i/
showing a lack of thought or judgment; not serious and not showing much intelligence:
a silly grin
I watched another silly movie last night.

silliness


noun[ U ]us/ˈsɪl·i·nəs/
It’s time to stop the silliness and get serious.

Examples of silly


silly
It was perfectly all right to say silly things.
No, how silly, it came from ancient boreal forests, further afield, and was blown off course.
But this is a silly question (at least for anyone who takes justice seriously enough to raise it).
Unfortunately - if not surprisingly - each of these senses, in isolation, comes off sounding rather silly.
It is silly to focus on achieving spontaneity or pleasure in what one does, so the observation goes.
To ask whether it is real or authentic is a silly question.
When the time came for the experimenter to elicit these words, she told the child that they would now be playing a silly word game.
I found this argument to be rather silly.
However, only the silly word game productions were compared with child productions.
These questions are all silly for integers because we treat integers as values, not objects.
I am not suggesting that it is in principle silly to think that behaviors of this sort could be underwritten by genes.
The experimenter told the child that she would say some silly words, and the child should repeat these silly words back to her.
The idea of total transparency is silly, if not incoherent.
Children were told to read some silly, meaningless words.
What they probably mean is that they are afraid to sing in case someone thinks they sound silly.
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