Thesaurus / sillies
other words for sillies
MOST RELEVANT
- ass
- birdbrain
- blockhead
- bonehead
- boob
- bore
- buffoon
- clod
- clown
- cretin
- dimwit
- dolt
- dope
- dumb ox
- dunce
- dunderhead
- easy mark
- fair game
- fathead
- goose
- halfwit
- idiot
- ignoramus
- illiterate
- imbecile
- innocent
- jackass
- jerk
- lamebrain
- lightweight
- loon
- moron
- nerd
- nincompoop
- ninny
- nitwit
- numskull
- oaf
- sap
- schlemiel
- silly
- simple
- simpleton
- softhead
- stooge
- sucker
- tomfool
- turkey
- twerp
- twit
- victim
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
The minute we started to rag her for being so bull-headed about her room, this crowd of sillies started in rooting for her.
MARJORIE DEAN COLLEGE FRESHMANPAULINE LESTER
Such are the workings of the mighty mind you two sillies credit him with!
SIGURD OUR GOLDEN COLLIE AND OTHER COMRADES OF THE ROADKATHARINE LEE BATES
It is a pity the little sillies can't speak till they've forgotten everything they had to tell!
LILITHGEORGE MACDONALD
What sillies girls are; just like women, always expecting somebody to hand them in and hand them out!
A BIG TEMPTATIONL. T. MEADE
Only sillies with their wits flabbergasted by pride would shut their eyes to the handwriting on the wall.
AIR SERVICE BOYS FLYING FOR VICTORYCHARLES AMORY BEACH
And then, veering round towards the children behind the bars: 'Shut up, you squalling sillies!'
GHETTO COMEDIESISRAEL ZANGWILL
So they were married, and if they didn't live happy ever after, that has nothing to do with the story of the three sillies.
ENGLISH FAIRY TALESFLORA ANNIE STEEL
Some of that crowd think we're sillies for staying out here, don't they, Steve?
AFLOAT ON THE FLOODLAWRENCE J. LESLIE
The casts of the Sillies invariably comprise the pick of local talent from the two communities.
DOROTHY DIXON AND THE MYSTERY PLANEDOROTHY WAYNE
But that she should have been assigned a part in the Sillies while yet in High School was a compliment beyond her expectations.
DOROTHY DIXON AND THE MYSTERY PLANEDOROTHY WAYNE