Thesaurus / silly
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Claiming that people with protruding ears were naturally weak-willed, for example, would seem plain silly.
GENDER IS WHAT YOU MAKE OF IT - ISSUE 88: LOVE & SEXCHARLES KINGAUGUST 5, 2020NAUTILUSWell, back in the early 1200s, the original sense of silly was “blessed” or, more accurately, “spiritually blessed.”
IS “SILLY” A POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE WORD?CANDICE BRADLEYJULY 24, 2020EVERYTHING AFTER ZThat may sound a bit silly, but often we’re in a culture where people think a scientist or mathematician has to be the crazy person locked up in a room working by ourselves.
LACK OF DIVERSITY IN HIS FIELD HAS TROUBLED THIS MATHEMATICIANESTHER LANDHUISAPRIL 14, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSSometimes my friends ask questions that they’re afraid are silly.
WEIGHT LIFTING IS THIS PLANETARY SCIENTIST’S PASTIMEBRYN NELSONMARCH 10, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTSI suspect when we look back in 100 years, or maybe even 50 years, we’ll be astonished at how silly many of the ideas we currently hold near and dear to our hearts are actually wrong.
5 PSYCHOLOGY TERMS YOU’RE PROBABLY MISUSING (EP. 334 REBROADCAST)STEPHEN J. DUBNERJANUARY 9, 2020FREAKONOMICSBecause what was so silly was that people call themselves highly verbal and wide readers, when in fact they’re illiterate when they reach science or the social sciences if they can’t evaluate numbers.
AMERICA’S MATH CURRICULUM DOESN’T ADD UP (EP. 391)STEVEN D. LEVITTOCTOBER 3, 2019FREAKONOMICSIf he would take her a little more seriously—it 's an immense pity he married her because she was silly!
CONFIDENCEHENRY JAMESI wonder why wise men choose silly wives always, she added consciously, playing with the reins.
TESSA WADSWORTH'S DISCIPLINEJENNIE M. DRINKWATERI just sit there, knocked plumb silly, almost, and looked at a big rose in the carpet.
ALEC LLOYD, COWPUNCHERELEANOR GATESNot only good taste, but health is often sacrificed to the silly error of dressing in the extreme of fashion.
THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESSFLORENCE HARTLEYWORDS RELATED TO SILLY
- aimless
- banal
- barren
- cheap
- dead
- deadpan
- devoid
- dishonest
- dumb
- expressionless
- fatuous
- flat
- frivolous
- futile
- hollow
- idle
- ignorant
- inane
- ineffectual
- inexpressive
- insincere
- insipid
- jejune
- meaningless
- nugatory
- otiose
- paltry
- petty
- purposeless
- senseless
- silly
- trivial
- unintelligent
- unreal
- unsatisfactory
- unsubstantial
- vacuous
- vain
- valueless
- vapid
- worthless
- absurd
- bizarre
- costly
- crazy
- exaggerated
- excessive
- exorbitant
- expensive
- extortionate
- extreme
- fanciful
- fancy
- fantastic
- flamboyant
- flashy
- foolish
- garish
- gaudy
- grandiose
- immoderate
- implausible
- improvident
- imprudent
- inordinate
- lavish
- ludicrous
- nonsensical
- ornate
- ostentatious
- outrageous
- overpriced
- preposterous
- pretentious
- prodigal
- profligate
- reckless
- ridiculous
- showy
- silly
- spendthrift
- steep
- unbalanced
- unconscionable
- unreasonable
- unrestrained
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