Definitions

asinine

[as-uh-nahyn] / ˈæs əˌnaɪn /

ADJECTIVE

senseless

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absurd cretinous daft foolish half-witted idiotic inane moronic silly sophomoric stupid

Usage

What are other ways to say asinine? The adjective asinine originally meant like an ass; it applies to witlessly stupid conversations or conduct and suggests a lack of social grace or perception: He failed to notice the reaction to his asinine remarks. Foolish implies a lack of common sense or good judgment or, sometimes, a weakness of mind: a foolish decision; The child seems foolish. Fatuous implies being not only foolish, dull, and vacant in mind, but complacent and highly self-satisfied as well: fatuous and self-important; fatuous answers. Silly denotes extreme and conspicuous foolishness; it may also refer to pointlessness of jokes, remarks, etc.: silly and senseless behavior; a perfectly silly statement. Inane applies to silliness that is notably lacking in content, sense, or point: inane questions that leave one with no reply. Stupid implies natural slowness or dullness of intellect, or, sometimes, a benumbed or dazed state of mind; it is also used to mean foolish or silly: He was rendered stupid by a blow; It is stupid to do such a thing.

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Asinine indeed had been her conduct ever since she let the F�hrer pick her up originally in a Munich cafe in 1934.

From Time Magazine Archive

Asinine, as′in-īn, adj. of or like an ass.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

It may be said, generally, that all literature is more or less Asinine.

From The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose

For elsewhere, and since the dawn of civilisation, Intellect has always become Master, Captain and King over Ignorance, but at Johannesburg it is Asinine Ignorance which rules Intellect.

From Through South Africa His Visit to Rhodesia, the Transvaal, Cape Colony, Natal by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)

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