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# silly

«silly» in Mova's school dictionary: **funny in a foolish way: a silly hat** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (silly, sillier, silliest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Silly means funny in a foolish way: a silly hat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silly/#m1)

2) Silly means not sensible or not wise: a silly mistake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silly/#m2)

3) «Silly» can be said kindly to someone who is being foolish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silly/#m3)

4) A silly can also be a foolish person, often said kindly to someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silly/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In maths a word of the story only, but «a silly mistake» is a careless one, like adding instead of subtracting. Everyday: silly jokes, silly faces, being silly, don't be silly. Stories: a silly goose, silly games.

### examples

- The clown wore 3 silly hats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silly/#x1)
- They told silly jokes for 10 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silly/#x2)
- It is silly to buy 20 umbrellas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silly/#x3)
- How many silly faces did he draw? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silly/#x4)
- I made a silly mistake and forgot to carry the one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silly/#x5)
- Don't be silly, it's only a spider. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silly/#x6)
- The children giggled at the silly song. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silly/#x7)
- Well, that was one big silly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silly/#x8)

### note

Comparative sillier, superlative silliest. Carries no number clue. Trap: none. «Silly» is gentler than «stupid»; use it kindly.

### In the corpora

- [Tipsy means a little alcohol has made someone chattier and sillier than usual, though they are still in control.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/12/)
- [Bots rhyme by sound and may not notice that a rhyme sounds rude or silly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/19/)
- [A family password, a silly word that is not online anywhere, beats a fake voice.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/12-keep-yourself-private-and-voices-that-lie/14/)
- [People argue whether the banana is a clever joke about money and art or proof that the art market is silly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/18-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that/11/)
- [Ukraine has a long cartoon history: a Kyiv studio made the silly Cossacks cartoons from the 1960s to the 1990s.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «silly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/silly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.