Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - silly
Silly
silly
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
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adjective (sillier; -est) Etymology: Middle English sely, ~ happy, innocent, pitiable, feeble, from Old English sǣlig, from sǣl happiness; akin to Old High German sālig happy Date: 14th century helpless, weak, 2. rustic, plain, lowly in station ; humble, 3. weak in intellect ; foolish, exhibiting or indicative of a lack of common sense or sound judgment , trifling, frivolous, being stunned or dazed , see: simple sillily adverb silliness noun ~ noun or adverb ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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