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silliest

silliest is the superlative form of silly.

silliest is the comparative degree of silly.

Meaning of silly

Adjective

silly (comparative sillier, superlative silliest)

  1. Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.
    • They were laughing at a silly joke.
    1. (particularly prices) Absurdly large.
      • He cannot achieve celebrity by covering himself with diamonds... or by giving a silly price for a hack.1875 June 26, Saturday Review, 815/2
  2. (Scotland, obsolete) Good; pious.
    • The sylyman lay and herde, / And hys wyf answerd.a. 1450, Seven Sages, line 1361
  3. (Scotland, obsolete) Holy.
    • ... thrie Saturdayes befor Lambas and thrie efter called the six silie Saturdayes.1650 in 1885, W. Cramond, Church of Rathven, 21
  4. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) Pitiful, inspiring compassion, particularly
    • The fire raging upon the silly Carcase.1556 in 1880, William Henry Turner, Selections from the Records of the City of Oxford... 1509–83, 246
  5. (Northern England, Scotland, literary, rare) 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.a. 1475, in 1925, Rossell Hope Robbins, Secular Lyrics of the 14th & 15th Centuries, 109

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Questions about silliest

What is silliest the superlative form of?
Silliest is the superlative form of silly.

Words near silliest in the dictionary

  1. sillibub
  2. sillibubs
  3. Sillicus
  4. sillier
  5. sillies
  6. silliest
  7. sillification
  8. sillikin
  9. sillikins
  10. sillily
  11. Silliman

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