What's the difference between goofy and silly?

Goofy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After dismissing the ending of Revolutionary Road as "falsely bleak" and telling his audience that "there's something goofy about American literature since modernism came to an end", the celebrated author of Freedom and The Corrections moved on to social media .
  • (2) Key, a trader turned politician who combines a CEO-style leadership approach with a down-to-earth, sometimes goofy personal image, continues to rank by far the highest in preferred prime minister polling.
  • (3) As intentionally goofy as it was, it was meant to go viral, to secretly spread optimism not just among the clearly on-board diehards in the Staples crowd but all throughout the basketball world.
  • (4) (Goofy as it sounds, this one actually helped me a lot.)
  • (5) Hard Festival's Richards wanted to lose the "goofy fashion" side of rave that EDC revels in.
  • (6) The Big Bang Theory’s Kaley Cuoco has been getting a lot of play this week—as William Shatner’s secret daughter in the new Priceline ads , and now as a goofy genie who mishears wishes Emily Litella -style while promoting the Toyota RAV4 .
  • (7) Baskets, of course, is his own brand of outrageous and goofy dingus.
  • (8) It was quite a serious story but punctuated by these soundbites of goofy cartoon noises,” Kanoniuk said.
  • (9) The goofy hashtag didn't prevent most readers from taking the tweet for sincere.
  • (10) Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen Their last visit to Edinburgh saw them nominated for the If.Comedy award for their goofy sketch-show Double Down Hearts.
  • (11) It’s easy to tell from the very start when a celebrity has the goods to be a great Saturday Night Live host – are they smart, goofy, and willing to make fun of themselves and their friends?
  • (12) Sellars admits his stagings have often been characterised by "whatever crazy or goofy thing is going on", but 30-odd years after he began his professional career, his focus has changed.
  • (13) There is the goofy 47-year-old actor and writer whose sleepy chipmunk face and everyman demeanour give no hint of his estimated $300m (£180m)fortune – nor the $25m price-tag (including producer's fee) that comes with his participation on a movie.
  • (14) Korine is big-sisterly and diplomatic, Benson and Hudgens are goofy, gabby, earnest and lovable by turns, while Gomez, the youngest and the only non-blonde in the movie, is often the one who sensibly and self-deprecatingly re-routes a conversation going adrift, who actually answers the original question, exuding the kind pragmatism, sanity and poise you might expect from a hard-bitten 13-year veteran of the kiddie-showbiz wars.
  • (15) Public Enemy was meant to be a lively democracy, with Chuck mediating between the goofy, anarchic Flavor Flav and the stern, ultra-militant “Minister of Information” Professor Griff, but that didn’t pan out.
  • (16) Wife and stepson charged in murder of Ku Klux Klan leader in Missouri Read more Asked for comment on the report, Andrew Anglin, the founder of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer site, wrote: “It’s just more of the same goofy gibberish from the Jews.” After decades on the fringes of American life, racist hate groups found themselves unexpectedly in the mainstream news spotlight last year, as Ku Klux Klan members and neo-Nazis rejoiced at Donald Trump’s rise and his presidential victory.
  • (17) But mostly the magic of my daughter’s joy at comparing ear length with Goofy, meeting Elsa (spoiler: “it’s not the real one, she’s wearing a wig”) and dancing along at a high-energy deck party, while I necked alcoholic blue-and-pink slush puppies.
  • (18) 'Dad's an awesome guy, he's a fun guy, he's a goofy guy, he likes to make people laugh, he likes to buy gifts for people and stuff' - I never experienced that with them.
  • (19) Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel are competing for a young, online audience, not with the old tricks – monologues, interviews, skits – but with goofy segments ready-made for viral consumption.” Even before moving to the US, Corden had amassed more than 4.5 million Twitter followers.
  • (20) The son of the talented and well-liked former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning, Peyton might not be as handsome as a Brady or a Donovan McNabb, but makes up for that with a goofy and self-deprecating sense of humour.

Silly


Definition:

  • (n.) Happy; fortunate; blessed.
  • (n.) Harmless; innocent; inoffensive.
  • (n.) Weak; helpless; frail.
  • (n.) Rustic; plain; simple; humble.
  • (n.) Weak in intellect; destitute of ordinary strength of mind; foolish; witless; simple; as, a silly woman.
  • (n.) Proceeding from want of understanding or common judgment; characterized by weakness or folly; unwise; absurd; stupid; as, silly conduct; a silly question.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We just hope that … maybe she’s gone to see her friend, talk some sense into her,” Renu said, adding that Shamima “knew that it was a silly thing to do” and that she did not know why her friend had done it.
  • (2) And Myers is cautioned after a silly block 3.21am GMT 54 mins Besler with a long-throw for SKC but it's cleared.
  • (3) As if to prove her silly dilettantism, when a journalist asked Dasha about her favourite artists, she replied, "I'm, like, really bad at remembering names."
  • (4) Some of them, pulled together for the manifesto, are silly, or doomed, or simply there for shock value - information points in the form of holograms of Dixon of Dock Green, the legalisation of soft drugs, official brothels opposite Westminster, complete with division bells.
  • (5) I am of a similar vintage and, like many friends and fans of the series, bemoan the fact that we are generally treated by society as silly, weak, daft, soppy, prejudiced (even bigoted), risk-averse and wary of new situations.
  • (6) I had more fun with Matt Winning , delivering a silly set on the Free Fringe imagining himself the son of Robert Mugabe.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest In an essay for the Hollywood Reporter, Camille Paglia writes that Swift promotes a ‘silly, regressive public image’.
  • (8) His selection on Twitter, he added, was “all in no particular order, off the top of my head, and the most incomplete of lists”, put together in response to Talese’s “silliness”.
  • (9) As soon as they saw how serious it was, they switched from being my silly, fun friends into being the most reliable and amazing people.
  • (10) They were all young, and it was a party house, devoted to games of hide and seek, music, silly practical jokes and food fights in the drawing room.
  • (11) As a result, one or two wrote some rather silly things in their reports,” Wilshaw said.
  • (12) ‘Silly things said by a silly man’ To be honest I really don’t care what BoJo says.
  • (13) People usually don't make silly, careless mistakes when they're motivated and working in a positive environment.
  • (14) Watching “our lads” pretending to mouth questionable lyrics about God giving the Queen near-immortal life, and her being the victor when she’s not really of fighting age, is silly.
  • (15) Imagine my relief this week then, when I found out that I can now let go of all my silly gay politics.
  • (16) We have referees who are unfamiliar with that silly "Goaltender Interference" technicality.
  • (17) The syndrome he described--a psychosis of early onset with a deteriorating course characterized by a "silly" affect, behavioral peculiarities, and formal thought disorder--not only adumbrated Kraepelin's generic category of dementia praecox but quite specifically defined the later subtype of hebephrenic, or disorganized, schizophrenia as well.
  • (18) "But they're so silly that I must say I never found them intimidating."
  • (19) Just as certain songs become inextricably associated in our minds with certain eras (before the invention of iPods, that is, after which everyone could walk around every day with all the songs in the world on shuffle), so too do silly trends.
  • (20) In 2014, she began working as a writer at Late Night with Seth Meyers; her first standup spot on that show began with a joke that typified both her silliness and confidence.