sillier; silliest
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2
: being stunned or dazed
scared silly
knocked me silly
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informal
: to an extreme degree
was scared silly
bored silly
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: in a silly manner : in an absurd or ridiculous way
talking/behaving silly
Benny Hill just walked silly, period, usually at high speed, to the accompaniment of cheesy pop music …—Charles Isherwood
plural sillies
: one who is silly : a foolish person
"But there," she told herself, "I am very likely a silly—meeting trouble half-way."—D. H. Lawrence
"Well then, silly, why not stay!"—Edna Ferber
"And who, then? Oh, the long line of sillies, light-weights, rakes, ne'er-do-wells, who … constituted society."—Theodore Dreiser
When the narrator describes women directly they seem … innately either sentimental sillies … or … pious hypocrites.—Myra Jehlen
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Merriam-Webster unabridged
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