silly
/ˈsɪli/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈsɪli/
silly
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final y vowel sound
sil - ly -> silly
Myanmar meaning
Full entry
silly /'sÇli/ adj (-ier , -iest )
(က) ဦးနှောက်မရှိသော။ မိုက်မဲသော။ a silly little boy ❍ silly mistakes ❍ Don't be silly! ❍ What a silly thing to say! တယ်မိုက်မဲ တဲ့စကားပါလား။
(ခ) ကလေး ကလား။ play silly games.
n (also silly billy) (infml ) ငတုံး။ Of course it won't hurt you, silly!
❏ play silly buggers [IDM ] (Brit sl ) ပေါသလိုကြောင် သလိုလုပ်သည်။ Stop playing silly buggers and help me lift this. silliness n [U]
❏ the silly season n [sing] (Brit )
နွေကာလ သတင်းစာများ တွင် ရေးစရာသတင်း ထူးထူးခြားခြား မရှိသဖြင့် အသေးအဖွဲ ဖြစ်ရပ် ကလေးများကို ဗာရာဏသီချဲ့ ရေးကြသည့် ရာသီ။
More examples
- A silly mistake
- It sounds a bit silly to me.
- You silly boy, you put your shirt on backwards.
- I look pretty silly in this dress.
- Don’t get upset over silly things that people say.
- They made us sit on these silly little chairs.
- A silly game
- A silly hat
- Stop acting silly!
- Morris laughed himself silly.
- She was scared silly.
Synonyms
stupid, ridiculous, impractical, mad, childish, inane, asinine, juvenile, harebrained, absurd, balmy, birdbrain, brainless, chill to the bone, chilled to the bone, crazy, curdle the blood, daft, dippy, disburb, dizzy, dumb ox, dunderhead, empty, empty-headed, fathead, fatuous, featherbrained, flighty, fool, foolhardy, foolish, frivolous, geese, giddy, goose, halfwit, idiotic, ignorant, illogical, immature, imprudent, inappropriate, inconsistent, irrational, irresponsible, lamebrain, ludicrous, make blood run cold, make one's blood run cold, make one's hair stand on end, make teeth chatter, meaningless, mindless, mooncalf, muddle-headed, ninny, nitwitted, nonsensical, pointless, preposterous, puerile, scare away, scare off, scare the daylights out of, scare to death, scared to death, scarify, schmo, schmuck, senseless, sheepheaded, simple, simpleminded, softhead, strike terror into, tomfool, trivial, turkey, twerp, unintelligent, unreasonable, unwise, vacuous, witless
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