Meaning & use
Sillily
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In a foolish, playful, or ridiculous manner.
See it in a sentence
She giggled sillily at the joke, unable to stop herself.
He danced sillily around the kitchen to make the children laugh.
A note on using this word
One of the few English adverbs formed by adding '-ly' to a word that already ends in '-y' (silly), which makes it awkward to pronounce and rare in writing.
Words with a similar meaning
foolishlyabsurdly
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Words with an opposite meaning
sensiblyseriously
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