English Dictionary

silly

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈsɪli/

形容詞

数詞 スコットランド英語 廃用 イングランド北部方言 文語 稀用 守備位置

Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance. / (of numbers, particularly prices) Absurdly large. / Good; pious. / Holy.

日本語の意味

愚かで馬鹿げた見た目や行動により笑いを誘う、面白い・滑稽な様子 / （特に価格などが）途方もなく大きい、あり得ないほどの大きさ / （古い意味で）良い、信心深い、神聖な

She wore a silly hat to the meeting and brightened everyone's mood.

彼女は会議にばかげた帽子をかぶって、皆の気分を明るくした。

意味（1）

Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.

意味（2）

(of numbers, particularly prices) Absurdly large.

He cannot achieve celebrity by covering himself with diamonds... or by giving a silly price for a hack.

意味（3）

Good; pious.

The sylyman lay and herde, And hys wyf answerd.

意味（4）

Holy.

... thrie Saturdayes befor Lambas and thrie efter called the six silie Saturdayes.

意味（5）

(now literary) Innocent; suffering undeservedly, especially as an epithet of lambs and sheep.

There is no best in þe word, I wene... That suffuris halfe so myche tene As doth þe sylly wat.

意味（6）

(now literary) Helpless, defenseless.

scared silly

意味（7）

Insignificant, worthless, (chiefly Scotland) especially with regard to land quality.

Ane sillie scheill vnder ane erdfast stane

意味（8）

Weak, frail; flimsy (use concerning people and animals is now obsolete).

Here we see that a smal sillie Bird knoweth how to match with so great a Beast.

意味（9）

Sickly; feeble; infirm.

To doe the thing we can To please... This silly sickly man.

意味（10）

Rustic, homely.

Dauid had no more but a sylie slynge, and a few stones.

意味（11）

(obsolete) Lowly, of humble station.

The silly herdman all astonnied standes.

意味（12）

(obsolete) Rustic, uneducated, unlearned.

From Hell (of which the silly people of the Country think the top of this hill to be the mouth).

意味（13）

Thoughtless, lacking judgment.

Wee sillie soules, take the matter too too heauily.

意味（14）

(Scotland) Mentally retarded.

Fow ȝellow ȝellow wes hir heid bot scho of lufe wes sillie.

意味（15）

Stupefied, senseless; stunned or dazed.

You say you were knocked silly—was that so?

意味（16）

(cricket, of a fielding position) 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.

sillier （ comparative ）

silliest （ superlative ）