sillily

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From silly +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɪlɪli/

Adverb

sillily (comparative more sillily, superlative most sillily)

  1. (dated or hypercorrect) In a silly manner; foolishly.
    The man walked down the street so sillily that many a bystander stopped and stared slack-jawed.
    • 1906, E. Nesbit, The Story of the Amulet:
      It was a fish-trap—just a ring of reeds set up in the water with only one little opening in it, and in this opening, just below the water, were stuck reeds slanting the way of the river's flow, so that the fish, when they had swum sillily in, sillily couldn't get out again.
    • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 253:
      Even 'Che Isa [...] had behaved sillily, making up to married men.

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