单词 | sillily |
释义 | sillilyadv.ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > [adverb] noughtlyeOE litherOE naughtlyOE litherlya1225 simplya1325 miseaselyc1330 wretchedlyc1340 lewdlyc1386 unhappily1390 miserably?a1425 lodderlyc1425 sorrily1496 singly1548 naughtily1574 sillily1581 lamentably1585 evilly1587 woefully1592 scurvily1616 execrably1633 grievously1742 miscreantly1744 queasily1845 fecklessly1862 God-forsakenly1913 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxv. 125 The soule it selfe is but sillyly looked to, while the bodie is in price. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Manger He that makes himselfe simple shall be sillily vsed. 2. In a foolish, absurd, or senseless manner; so as to attract ridicule; ludicrously, ridiculously. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [adverb] unwiselyc897 dizzilyc1175 folly?c1225 canglichec1230 mazedlya1250 follilyc1330 unskilfully1340 unwittily1362 lewdlyc1380 nicelya1387 fondlya1450 nicea1450 foolishlyc1450 foliously1481 ineptly1523 peevishly?1529 simply1535 insipiently1536 senselessly1561 fonly1579 sillilyc1598 perperously1657 insipidly1699 daftly1724 silly1731 stupid?1757 dawkinly1763 fool-like1800 unsagely1801 spoonily1861 assishly1863 ill-advisedly1879 c1598 King James VI & I Basilicon Doron (1944) I. iii. 180 Use also the lyke forme in youre gesture, nather looking sillelie lyke a stupide pedante, nor unsetledlie uith ane unkouth morgue, lyke a neu come ouir caualier. 1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. 256 How doe wee sillily call all Idolatrous, that is in vse amongst Idolaters? 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid iii. xi. 248 Such Wounds which were very deep, and were silily and ignorantly stitched. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 466. ⁋6 [She] affects to please so sillily, that..you see the Simpleton from Head to Foot. 1789 H. Walpole Let. 2 July (1840) VI. 321 But I fear I am punning sillily, instead of thanking you seriously. 1843 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 254 Neither have I sillily paid four or five pounds away for it. 1864 R. Browning Dîs Aliter Visum in Dramatis Personæ 47 I took your arm And sillily smiled. 1910 J. Buchan Prester John xv. 145 My wits must have been shaky, for I took the fall for a snowdrift, and wondered sillily why the Berg had grown so Alpine. 2011 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 29 May (Sport section) 14 About to become a Saxon—and unlike most of the sillily named England second team, at least he's big and blond enough to look like one. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1581 |
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