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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?
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
This issue is largely silliness stirred up by the media, nobody reasonably thinks Chris Christie is opposed to vaccinating kids other than a bunch of reporters who want to write headlines.
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.
We do not have time for this kind of silliness, we've got better stuff to do. I've got better stuff to do.
This notion that American law enforcement is somehow dangerous to students or the very innocuous slogan of ‘Back the Blue.’ In other words, we support our police that that is somehow a triggering issue or somehow a sensitive thing to say. Again, it's silliness, and it's based on a false narrative, and we, the American people, have got to continue to stand together to fight that false narrative.
Translations for silliness
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- amaideasScottish Gaelic
- meecheeall, meecheeallidManx
- dumjība, muļķībaLatvian
- dumhet, larv, fånighetSwedish
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