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sillyly

sillyly is the obsolete spelling of sillily.

Meaning of sillily

Adverb

sillily (comparative more sillily, superlative most sillily)

  1. (dated, hypercorrect) In a silly manner; foolishly.
    • The man walked down the street so sillily that many a bystander stopped and stared slack-jawed.
    Synonyms:
    silly

Forms of sillyly

comparativemore sillyly
superlativemost sillyly

Origin of sillyly

From silly + -ly.

Questions about sillyly

What is sillyly the obsolete spelling of?
Sillyly is the obsolete spelling of sillily.

Words near sillyly in the dictionary

  1. sillyish
  2. sillyism
  3. sillyisms
  4. sillykin
  5. sillykins
  6. sillyly
  7. sillyness
  8. sillyton
  9. sillytons
  10. Silmon
  11. Silmons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sillyly (page history and authors); sillily (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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