单词 | silly |
释义 | 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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