sillily

/ˈsɪlɪli/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Meaning

adv

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"The man walked down the street so sillily that many a bystander stopped and stared slack-jawed."
"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."
"Even 'Che Isa [...] had behaved sillily, making up to married men."

Etymology tree English silly Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English sillily From silly + -ly.

more sillily (comparative) most sillily (superlative) sillyly (alternative, obsolete)

silly

Questions

How do you pronounce sillily?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsɪlɪli/.

What does sillily mean?

In a silly manner; foolishly.

Where does sillily come from?

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