silliness
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2.6
- noun
- /ˈsɪlɪnəs/
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tontería
- The children's silliness made everyone laugh and forget their worries for a while.
It's silly, but the silliness now is becoming almost perverse.
- It's silly, but the silliness now is becoming almost perverse.
- Can you tell we're on a kind of a wave right now of silliness?
- May scoff at the warnings as nanny state silliness, but to auditory experts, the danger is very real.
- Loss, sorrow, violence, pain, yes, but also delight, silliness, raucous laughter, care, Care as I see it above all.
- All right, I have to say, I am so frustrated about the silliness that people say on the Internet when it comes to inflation.
- The sophisticated silliness that they were doing absolutely lit me up like this is everything that I want, everything that I love.
- He thinks that's just as much groundless, you know, silliness as anything else.
- And then the, the silliness of like trying to reflate the old Fortis thing.
- You're very good at that embracing silliness.
- And it's just because you can't possibly, you can't possibly map the some of the silliness of human drivers, right?
- So like the so saying that was was, you know, more just kind of peak and silliness.
- And that was a an irrelevant kind of silliness rather than a a a real threat to the Dirac theory.
- This is not silliness that we know is, is is happening inside of us and outside of us.
Examples
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Please forgive my silliness.
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- Enough of this silliness!
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So sure, you know, I, I, I think and it, there is some silliness involved in it.
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- This is just a bit of silliness, really.
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Get past the silliness of it all.
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I miss the silliness, the fun.
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Enough of this silliness, colonel.
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You know, you understand the silliness of it, but it's a sad part of humanity that I was forced to see.
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But The thing is, I think that we can all chuckle at the silliness of this story.
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The two of them looked at each other and laughed at Dinah's silliness.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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6.1
Something very silly that goes against common sense
16
7.4
Light, joking talk or behavior when people expect seriousness
10
4.9
Being very silly or clearly unreasonable
9
6.7
Light, silly behavior that is not serious
5
7.9
Clown-like, silly actions meant to make people laugh
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9.5
A state of being very silly and without any real meaning
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3.2
A way of acting that is silly, playful, and often makes people laugh
2
5.3
A funny, strange way of acting that surprises and makes people laugh
2
6.1
Silly, harmless behavior that makes people laugh
1
8.0
A playful, joking way of behaving that makes people laugh
1
5.2
A playful, slightly silly way of behaving that makes people laugh
1
6.3
How much people laugh at something
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5.7
A tendency to act excitedly without careful thought
1
9.9
A very silly and stupid idea or action
1
7.5
A situation so silly or unreasonable that people laugh and do not believe it
1
7.4
A quality that makes people laugh
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7.0
A quality of acting in a playful way when things are important
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7.1
Funny, silly, unpredictable behaviour or ideas that make people laugh
1
7.9
A state of being very silly and clearly against common sense
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7.8
A habit of making playful jokes about serious things
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6.8
A very silly or crazy way of behaving that makes people laugh
Behaving in a silly, playful way like a clown to make people laugh
Silly behavior meant to make people laugh
A habit of treating important things as unimportant
A way of behaving that shows little care or concern
A lack of seriousness when people expect it
A silly action or remark that shows little thought
A state of being foolish and not thinking clearly
A feeling of being silly and fake that others do not take seriously
Very foolish behavior that makes no sense
A short time when someone acts silly
A short time when someone acts very silly and makes people laugh
Silly, wild actions people do to get attention
A time when someone is very confused and acts a little crazy
Antonyms
How Silly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Silliness comes from silly plus the ending -ness, and silly once meant 'happy' or 'blessed' before it later came to mean 'foolish' or 'not serious'. So silliness is the state of being playful, careless, or funny in a way that makes people smile.