Silly: Definition and part of speech

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Silly

  1. n. Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.
  2. n. Happy; fortunate; blessed.
  3. n. Harmless; innocent; inoffensive.
  4. n. Weak; helpless; frail.
  5. n. Rustic; plain; simple; humble.
  6. n. Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.

    7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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