Usually means: Lacking seriousness; playful or foolish.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word silly:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. silly: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. silly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. silly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. silly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. silly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Silly, silly: Wordnik
  7. silly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. silly: Wiktionary
  9. silly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. silly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. silly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. silly: Dictionary.com
  13. silly: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. silly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Silly (band), Silly (disambiguation), Silly (song), Silly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Silly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. silly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. silly: Rhymezone
  19. silly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. silly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. silly: Free Dictionary
  22. silly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. silly: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. Silly: The Word Detective
  25. silly: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. silly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. silly: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. silly, silly, silly, silly: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Silly [Obama], silly, the silly: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sillier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.
adjective:  (of numbers, particularly prices) Absurdly large.
adjective:  (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) Blessed
adjective:  Good; pious.
adjective:  Holy.
adjective:  (now chiefly Scotland and Northern England, rare) Pitiful, inspiring compassion
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
adjective:  Rustic, homely.
adjective:  (obsolete) Lowly, of humble station.
adjective:  Mentally simple, foolish
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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