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Synonyms for silliness
silli·ness
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
silliness
Synonyms:
absurdity, error, fatuity, folly, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, imprudence, indiscretion, miscalculation, misjudgment, nonsense, senselessness, stupidityAntonyms:
attainment, depth, discernment, discretion, enlightenment, erudition, foresight, information, insight, judgment, judiciousness, knowledge, learning, prescience, profundity, prudence, reason, reason, reasonableness, sagacity, sense, skill, understanding, wisdom
Princeton's WordNet
absurdity, fatuity, fatuousness, sillinessnoun
a ludicrous folly
"the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior"
Synonyms:
ridiculousness, absurdity, fatuity, absurdness, fatuousness, giddinessgiddiness, sillinessnoun
an impulsive scatterbrained manner
Synonyms:
fatuousness, giddiness, lightheadedness, fatuity, dizziness, vertigo, absurdity
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
sillinessnoun
Synonyms:
folly, foolishness, puerility, stupidity, inanity, inaneness, absurdity, senselessness, ineptitude
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#899 | error | |
#12351 | nonsense | |
#20444 | stupidity | |
#20527 | vertigo | |
#21562 | dizziness | |
#21891 | folly | |
#37614 | absurdity | |
#45111 | silliness | |
#47276 | foolishness | |
#48388 | idiocy | |
#78377 | lightheadedness | |
#91338 | miscalculation | |
#92835 | indiscretion | |
#149795 | ridiculousness | |
#152364 | giddiness | |
#173706 | imbecility | |
#182661 | imprudence | |
#223530 | misjudgment | |
#245809 | senselessness |
How to use silliness in a sentence?
We do not have time for this kind of silliness, we've got better stuff to do. I've got better stuff to do.
That a company of such a small size can get a valuation is symptomatic of the silliness ... that develops in a period of zero interest rates.
Our president has an unfortunate habit of distracting with tweets, it's just silliness. But the economy is not silly. It's doing great, and I am afraid if we don't re-elect the president, that will stop.
It's just the right amount of absurd and silliness, it was just such a cool thing to go back and re-enter that whole world... It's a great thing to revisit.
We may be willing to put up -- even embrace silliness as part of a holiday aesthetic -- that we wouldn't necessarily welcome in other ways.
Translations for silliness
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- amaideasScottish Gaelic
- meecheeall, meecheeallidManx
- dumjība, muļķībaLatvian
- dumhet, larv, fånighetSwedish
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