silly

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A silly person. colloquial
    — While they, poor sillies, bid good night, O' love an' bogles eerie.
  2. A term of address. endearing
    — ‘Come on, silly,’ said Nannie.
  3. A mistake. colloquial
形容词 adj.
  1. Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.
    — They were laughing at a silly joke.
  2. Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.; Absurdly large.
    — He cannot achieve celebrity by covering himself with diamonds... or by giving a silly price for a hack.
  3. Blessed; Good; pious. Scotland,obsolete
    — The sylyman lay and herde, / And hys wyf answerd.
  4. Blessed; Holy. Scotland,obsolete
    — ... thrie Saturdayes befor Lambas and thrie efter called the six silie Saturdayes.
  5. Pitiful, inspiring compassion, particularly Northern-England,Scotland,rare
    — The fire raging upon the silly Carcase.
  6. Pitiful, inspiring compassion; Innocent; suffering undeservedly, especially as an epithet of lambs and sheep. Northern-England,Scotland,literary,rare
    — There is no best in þe word, I wene... / That suffuris halfe so myche tene / As doth þe sylly wat.
  7. Pitiful, inspiring compassion; Helpless, defenseless. Northern-England,Scotland,literary,rare
    — scared silly
  8. Pitiful, inspiring compassion; Insignificant, worthless, (chiefly Scotland) especially with regard to land quality. Northern-England,Scotland,rare
    — Ane sillie scheill vnder ane erdfast stane
  9. Pitiful, inspiring compassion; Weak, frail; flimsy (use concerning people and animals is now obsolete). Northern-England,Scotland,rare
    — Here we see that a smal sillie Bird knoweth how to match with so great a Beast.
  10. Pitiful, inspiring compassion; Sickly; feeble; infirm. Northern-England,Scotland,rare
    — To doe the thing we can / To please... / This silly sickly man.
  11. Simple, plain; Rustic, homely. rare
    — Dauid had no more but a sylie slynge, and a few stones.
  12. Simple, plain; Lowly, of humble station. obsolete,rare
    — The silly herdman all astonnied standes.
  13. Mentally simple, foolish; Rustic, uneducated, unlearned. obsolete
    — From Hell (of which the silly people of the Country think the top of this hill to be the mouth).
  14. Mentally simple, foolish; Thoughtless, lacking judgment.
    — silly mistake
  15. Mentally simple, foolish; mentally delayed or feeble. Scotland
    — Fow ȝellow ȝellow wes hir heid bot scho of lufe wes sillie.
  16. Mentally simple, foolish; Stupefied, senseless; stunned or dazed.
    — You say you were knocked silly—was that so?
  17. Very close to the batsman, facing the bowler; closer than short.
    — Carpenter now placed himself at silly-point for Grundy, who was playing very forward.
副词 adv.
  1. Sillily: in a silly manner. colloquial,regional
    — If you did but see how silly a Man fumbles for an Excuse, when he's a little asham'd of being in Love.

词形变化

sillier comparative silliest superlative sely alternative seely alternative sillier comparative silliest superlative sillies plural

词汇关系

近义词
charming Also see Thesaurus:foolish
反义词
pious
衍生词
nonsilly play silly beggars play silly buggers sillification sillily silliness silly bean silly billy sillycidal sillycide sillyfic silly goose sillyhead sillyhood silly-how sillyish sillyism sillykin sillykins sillyly silly me silly mid off silly mid on silly money silly o'clock silly pill silly point silly putty silly sausage silly season silly slicing silly straw silly string silly window syndrome strike me silly unsilly

词源

词源 1
From Middle English seely, sēlī, from Old English sǣliġ, ġesǣliġ (“lucky, fortunate”), from Proto-West Germanic *sālīg, from *sāli; equivalent to seel (“happiness, bliss”) + -y. Doublet of Seelie.
The semantic evolution is “lucky” to “innocent” to “naive” to “foolish”. Compare the similar evolution of daft (originally meaning “accommodating”), and almost the reverse with nice (originally meaning “ignorant”).
词源 2
From Middle English seely, sēlī, from Old English sǣliġ, ġesǣliġ (“lucky, fortunate”), from Proto-West Germanic *sālīg, from *sāli; equivalent to seel (“happiness, bliss”) + -y. Doublet of Seelie.
The semantic evolution is “lucky” to “innocent” to “naive” to “foolish”. Compare the similar evolution of daft (originally meaning “accommodating”), and almost the reverse with nice (originally meaning “ignorant”).
词源 3
From Middle English seely, sēlī, from Old English sǣliġ, ġesǣliġ (“lucky, fortunate”), from Proto-West Germanic *sālīg, from *sāli; equivalent to seel (“happiness, bliss”) + -y. Doublet of Seelie.
The semantic evolution is “lucky” to “innocent” to “naive” to “foolish”. Compare the similar evolution of daft (originally meaning “accommodating”), and almost the reverse with nice (originally meaning “ignorant”).
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