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Asinine

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Utterly stupid or silly: asinine behavior.

adj. Of, relating to, or resembling an ass.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Failing to exercise intelligence or judgment; ridiculously below average rationality.

adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of donkeys.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or belonging to, or having the qualities of, the ass, as stupidity and obstinacy.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Belonging to or characteristic of the ass.

Having the qualities attributed to the ass; stupid; obstinate; obtrusively silly; offensively awkward.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. devoid of intelligence

Word Usage

"In Major League Baseball, meantime, the Yankees are bemoaning revenue sharing while White Sox General Manager Ken Williams used the word "asinine" to describe the possibility that Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols could land a $30 million a year contract."

Equivalent

foolish

Form

asininely asininity

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

stupid obstinate foolish

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

inane idiotic snide nonsensical unfounded inapplicable implausible unrealistic foolproof believable