Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - silly
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adjective (sillier; -est) Etymology: Middle English sely, ~ happy, innocent, pitiable, feeble, from Old English s?lig, from s?l happiness; akin to Old High German salig happy Date: 14th century 1. archaic helpless, weak 2. a. rustic, plain b. obsolete lowly in station ; humble 3. a. weak in intellect ; foolish b. exhibiting or indicative of a lack of common sense or sound judgment a very ~ mistake c. trifling, frivolous 4. being stunned or dazed scared ~ knocked me ~ Synonyms: see simple • sillily adverb • silliness noun • ~ noun or adverb ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. & n. --adj. (sillier, silliest) 1 lacking sense; foolish, imprudent, unwise. 2 weak-minded. 3 Cricket (of a fielder or position) very close to the batsman (silly mid-off). 4 archaic innocent, simple, helpless. --n. (pl. -ies) colloq. a foolish person. Phrases and idioms silly billy colloq. a foolish person. the silly season high summer as the season when newspapers often publish trivial material for lack of important news. Derivatives sillily adv. silliness n. Etymology: later form of ME sely (dial. seely) happy, repr. OE s{aelig}lig (recorded in uns{aelig}lig unhappy) f. Gmc ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. разг. глупыш; несмышленыш don't take offence, silly! —- не обижайся, дурачок! don't be such a silly —- не глупи 2. неумный, неразумный; глупый a silly thing —- глупость a silly mistake —- нелепая ошибка don't be silly —- не глупи you silly girl! —- глупышка ты! that was silly of me —- это с моей стороны было глупо 3. разг. одуревший, ничего не соображающий (от удара) scared silly —- одуревший от страха he knocked me silly —- от удара я перестал что-либо соображать 4. (over) влюбленный по уши to go silly over a woman —- потерять голову от любви к женщине 5. шотл. слабый, болезненный; беспомощный 6. шотл. жалкий, ничтожный 7. редк. слабоумный, умственно отсталый 8. оглушать, ошеломлять ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. adj. 1) глупый; слабоумный 2) obs. простой, бесхитростный; безобидный the silly season - затишье в прессе (особ. в конце лета) Syn: see absurd 2. noun coll. глупыш, несмышленыш ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 adj 1 not sensible, showing bad judgment (This may sound like a silly question, but what is the point of this exercise? | a silly thing to do/say) (I left my keys at home, which was a pretty silly thing to do.) (- see shame1) 2 stupid in a childish or embarrassing way (I wish you kids would stop being so silly. | a silly hat | I hate their parties - we always end up playing silly games.) 3 spoken not serious or practical (They served us coffee in these silly little cups. | Try making a silly offer - they might just accept it.) 4 bore sb silly informal to make someone extremely bored 5 drink yourself silly informal to get very drunk - silliness n ~2 n spoken used to tell someone that you think they are being stupid (No, silly, I didn't mean that!) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- O.E. gesжlig "happy" (related to sжl "happiness"), from W.Gmc. *sжligas. The word's considerable sense development moved from "blessed" to "pious," to "innocent" (1200), to "harmless," to "pitiable" (c.1280), to "weak" (c.1300), to "feeble in mind, lacking in reason, foolish" (1576). Further tendency toward "stunned, dazed as by a blow" (1886) in knocked silly, etc. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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