Usually means: More foolish, absurd, or playful.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word sillier:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. sillier: Merriam-Webster
  2. sillier: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sillier: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sillier: Vocabulary.com
  5. Sillier, sillier: Wordnik
  6. sillier: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. sillier: Wiktionary
  8. sillier: Dictionary.com
  9. sillier: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. sillier: FreeDictionary.org
  11. sillier: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sillier: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sillier: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sillier: Idioms

(Note: See silly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (silly)

adjective:  Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.
adjective:  (of numbers, particularly prices) Absurdly large.
adjective:  (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) Blessed, particularly:
adjective:  Good; pious.
adjective:  Holy.
adjective:  (now chiefly Scotland and Northern England, rare) Pitiful, inspiring compassion, particularly:
adjective:  (now literary) Innocent; suffering undeservedly, especially as an epithet of lambs and sheep.
adjective:  (now literary) Helpless, defenseless.
adjective:  Insignificant, worthless, (chiefly Scotland) especially with regard to land quality.
adjective:  Weak, frail; flimsy (use concerning people and animals is now obsolete).
adjective:  Sickly; feeble; infirm.
adjective:  (now rustic UK, rare) Simple, plain, particularly:
adjective:  Rustic, homely.
adjective:  (obsolete) Lowly, of humble station.
adjective:  Mentally simple, foolish, particularly:
adjective:  (obsolete) Rustic, uneducated, unlearned.
adjective:  Thoughtless, lacking judgment.
adjective:  (Scotland) Mentally retarded.
adjective:  Stupefied, senseless; stunned or dazed.
adjective:  (cricket, of a fielding position) Very close to the batsman, facing the bowler; closer than short.
adverb:  (now regional or colloquial) Sillily: in a silly manner.
noun:  (colloquial) A silly person.
noun:  (endearing, gently derogatory) A term of address.
noun:  (colloquial) A mistake.
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