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Kekel Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

silly vs foolish

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00If I call a person silly or foolish, what would be more rude? 02br
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0 Personally I think both silly and foolish have the same meaning. But when saying a person is foolish, it sounds more rude as compared to saying a person is silly. Most of the people prefered to use 01i 00Silly girl02i 00 instead of 01i 00Foolish girl02i 00.

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  • 0 Personally I think both silly and foolish have the same meaning.
  • But when saying a person is foolish, it sounds more rude as compared to saying a person is silly.
  • Most of the people prefered to use 01i 00Silly girl02i 00 instead of 01i 00Foolish girl02i 00.
  • The word ''silly' sounds better.
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0 Personally I think both silly and foolish have the same meaning. But when saying a person is foolish, it sounds more rude as compared to saying a person is silly. Most of the people prefered to use 01i00Silly girl02i00 instead of 01i00Foolish girl02i00. The word ''silly' sounds better. 0-
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0 silly means a little foolish together with childish or lovely 0-
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0 Yeah right....Silly is used for someone who is irritating, funny, goofy whereas foolish is used for someone who is a fool or dumb. Foolish indeed is a little ruder than silly. 0-
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0 Just let me see if I get it,02br
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00if I ask "are you married??" and I could have noticed it by the wedding ring, I'm asking a 01b00silly 02b00question.02br
00If I say to a pregnant woman "you look fatter!!" this was a 01b00foolish 02b00observation (silly and also rude)02br
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0I do not think so. The first married question is much more rude than silly in most cases; I have no idea about the second.02br
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00In fact, foolish is much more understandable than silly. If someone did wrong with easy-to-be-done things, then it can be regard as foolish.02br
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00If you ask a university student seriously what is 4 plus 5, then it is
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0Sorry for my silly (or should be foolish) examples... I'm not an expert in good situations! 05002br
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0Maybe I can make such a silly, but not quite foolish, remark: In general, both silly and foolish can be used to decribe persons or their behavers.02br
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00Using foolish, you kinda show your emotion of hate; using silly, you consider them both a little foolish and funny/lovely/childish.01blockquote
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