Definition of asinine
- an asinine excuse
it was asinine to run into the street like that
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First Known Use: 15th century
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearabsurd, balmy, brainless, cockeyed, crackpot, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, dippy, dotty, fatuous, featherheaded, fool, foolish, half-baked, half-witted, harebrained, inept, insane, jerky, kooky (also kookie), loony (also looney), lunatic, lunkheaded, mad, nonsensical, nutty, preposterous, sappy, screwball, senseless, silly, simpleminded, stupid, tomfool, unwise, wacky (also whacky), weak-minded, witless, zany;
airheaded, birdbrained, brain-dead, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, clueless, dense, dim, dim-witted, doltish, dopey (also dopy), dorky [slang], dull, dumb, dunderheaded, empty-headed, fatuous, feebleminded, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), mindless, moronic, oafish, obtuse, opaque, pinheaded, simple, slow, slow-witted, soft, softheaded, thoughtless, thick, thickheaded, unintelligent, vacuous, witless;
fallacious, illogical, invalid, irrational, unreasonable, unreasoning, unsound, weak;
out to lunch;
See words that rhyme with asinine Thesaurus: All synonyms and antonyms for asinine Spanish Central: Translation of asinine Nglish: Translation of asinine for Spanish speakers
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