asinine

adjsenseless

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Synonyms for asinine

adj senseless

More words related to asinine

crass

adjective. coarse, insensitive

crassest

adjective. coarse, insensitive

daft

adjective. stupid; crazy

daftest

adjective. stupid; crazy

fatuous

adjective. stupid

Word Origin & History

c.1600, "obstinate, stupid," from Latin asininus "stupid," literally "like an ass," from asinus "ass," also "dolt, blockhead" (see ass (n.1)). The literal sense in English is recorded from 1620s.

Example Sentences for asinine

Meddling with wildcat stocks––asinine any way you figure it!

That's what I am—an undeserving, ungrateful, irresponsible, and asinine pup!

Without delay I began the preparations for the asinine journey.

Why can not you keep quiet, instead of making your asinine remarks?

These equine and asinine glories have passed away, extinguished by the rail.

It was such an asinine thing, even as I had it shaped up in the beginning.

It was without a top, and had a pair of wide-spreading, asinine ears.

"That sounds about as asinine as the droolings of the average psychiatrist," I muttered.

"It's asinine, if it's true," the professor voiced the other side of it.

Some notes were refused with heroic, or shall I call it asinine endurance.