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silliness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of silliness

1 lack of good sense or judgment
  • She was both amused and irritated by the silliness of his comments regarding the movie they has just seen.
Synonyms of silliness

absurdity, asininity, balminess, brainlessness, craziness, daftness, dippiness, dottiness, fatuity, fatuousness, folly, foolishness, imbecility, inanity, insanity, lunacy, madness, nonsensicalness, nuttiness, preposterousness, senselessness, simplicity, wackiness, witlessness, zaniness
Words Related to silliness

denseness, dim-wittedness, doltishness, dopiness, dullness (also dulness), dumbness, feeblemindedness, idiocy, mindlessness, oafishness, obtuseness, simplemindedness, simpleness, slowness, stupidity, stupidness, vacuity

fallacy, irrationality, unreasonableness

kookiness, weirdness

laughableness, ludicrousness, ridiculousness
Near Antonyms of silliness

logicality, logicalness, rationality, rationalness, reasonability, reasonableness, validity

discernment, insight, perception, percipience
Antonyms of silliness

prudence, sagaciousness, sagacity, sageness, sanity, sapience, sensibleness, soundness, wisdom
2 language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense
  • Stop this silliness at once!
Synonyms of silliness

balderdash, baloney (also boloney), beans, bilge, blarney, blather, bosh, bull [slang], bunk, bunkum (or buncombe), claptrap, drivel, folderol (also falderal), folly, foolishness, fudge, hogwash, hokeypokey, hokum, hooey, humbug, humbuggery, jazz, malarkey (also malarky), moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rot, rubbish, senselessness, stupidity, tommyrot, trash, trumpery, twaddle
Words Related to silliness

absurdity, asininity, foolery, idiocy, imbecility, inaneness, inanity, insanity, kookiness, lunacy

absurdness, craziness, madness, senselessness, witlessness

monkey business, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery

gas, hot air, rigmarole (also rigamarole)

double-talk, hocus-pocus
Near Antonyms of silliness

levelheadedness, rationality, reasonability, reasonableness, sensibleness

common sense, horse sense, sense

discernment, judgment (or judgement), wisdom
3 a lack of seriousness often at an improper time
  • This inability to refrain from silliness is a distressing sign of professional immaturity.
Synonyms of silliness

facetiousness, flightiness, flippancy, frivolity, frivolousness, frothiness, levity, light-headedness, light-mindedness, lightness
Words Related to silliness

cheer, cheerfulness, festivity, gaiety (also gayety), glee, gleefulness, high-spiritedness, hilarity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, mirthfulness

childishness, goofiness, puerility
Near Antonyms of silliness

dejection, depression, despondency, dispiritedness, downheartedness, gloom, gloominess, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, mopes, moroseness, sadness, sullenness, unhappiness
Antonyms of silliness

earnestness, gravity, seriousness, soberness, solemnity, solemnness

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