Word Meanings - ASININE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or belonging to, or having the qualities of, the ass, as stupidity and obstinacy. "Asinine nature." B. Jonson. "Asinine feast." Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ASININE)

• Absurd
• Irrational
• ridiculous
• monstrous
• senseless
• asinine
• stupid
• chimerical
• unreasonable
• preposterous
• silly
• nonsensical
• foolish

Related words: (words related to ASININE)

• IRRATIONAL
  Not capable of being exactly expressed by an integral number, or by a vulgar fraction; surd; -- said especially of roots. See Surd. Syn. -- Absurd; foolish; preposterous; unreasonable; senseless. See Absurd. (more info) 1. Not rational; void of
• SILLYHOW
  A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
• NONSENSICAL
  Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ly, adv. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ness, n.
• ABSURDNESS
  Absurdity.
• CHIMERICAL
  Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects. Syn. -- Imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wild; unfounded; vain; deceitful; delusive.
• UNREASONABLE
  Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant. -- Un*rea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*rea"son*a*bly, adv.
• MONSTROUS
  1. Marvelous; strange. 2. Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth. Locke. He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love ... is unnatural
• ABSURD
  An absurdity. Pope.
• STUPIDITY
  1. The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness. 2. Stupor; astonishment; stupefaction. A stupidity Past admiration strikes me, joined with fear. Chapman.
• CHIMERICALLY
  Wildy; vainly; fancifully.
• SILLY
  sely, AS. s, ges, happy, good, fr. s, s, good, happy, s good fortune, happines; akin to OS. salig, a, good, happy, D. zalig blessed, G. selig, OHG. salig, Icel. s, Sw. säll, Dan. salig, Goth. s good, kind, 1. Happy; fortunate; blessed. Chaucer.
• IRRATIONALNESS
  Irrationality.
• RIDICULOUS
  1. Fitted to excite ridicule; absurd and laughable; unworthy of serious consideration; as, a ridiculous dress or behavior. Agricola, discerning that those little targets and unwieldy glaives ill pointed would soon become ridiculous against the
• STUPID
  1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons. O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God! Milton. With wild surprise, A moment stupid,
• ABSURDITY
  1. The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. "The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number." Locke. 2. That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. His travels were
• ABSURDLY
  In an absurd manner.
• FOOLISHNESS
  1. The quality of being foolish. 2. A foolish practice; an absurdity. The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. 1 Cor. i. 18.
• ASININE
  Of or belonging to, or having the qualities of, the ass, as stupidity and obstinacy. "Asinine nature." B. Jonson. "Asinine feast." Milton.
• IRRATIONALLY
  In an irrational manner. Boyle.
• PREPOSTEROUS
  1. Having that first which ought to be last; inverted in order. The method I take may be censured as preposterous, because I thus treat last of the antediluvian earth, which was first in the order of nature. Woodward. 2. Contrary to nature
• UNSILLY
  See UNSELY