asinine
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Synonyms & Antonyms for asinine
Synonyms
absurd, balmy, brainless, bubbleheaded, 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
Antonyms
judicious, prudent, sagacious, sage, sane, sapient, sensible, sound, wise
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Bulgaria got a bad reputation from asinine American comedians who perpetuated the old communist stereotype of squat men and women with unibrows and thick necks who shave twice a day. — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, "Column: Gov. J.B. Pritzker should establish an Office of GSGBO (Get Stoned or Get the Bleep Out) to make a few bucks off those fleeing the state," 27 June 2019 Dolan has run the Knicks for two decades—two decades of lousy basketball, horrible management, petty feuds, asinine vendettas and blaming anybody who blames him. — Michael Rosenberg, SI.com, "All Cap Space, No Substance: Knicks Think They’re Something, but They’re Nothing," 1 July 2019 Aside from the asinine name, in practice these usually turn out to be artisanally rendered fruit punches. — Corey Seymour, Vogue, "Finally: What to Drink When You're Not Drinking," 1 June 2018 Hopefully the physics of that act would dissuade your first-time builder from copying such an asinine action, or an external tutorial would teach them the right way. — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, "PC Building Simulator might be one of the most important DIY enthusiast tools ever created," 31 Mar. 2018 This perplexing nod might beef up Norwell’s market value, and his franchise-tag number is already inflated by the NFL’s asinine practice of lumping all linemen into the same pricing category. — Andy Benoit, SI.com, "Ranking the NFL's Neediest Teams," 9 Feb. 2018 Moss, unfortunately, has become an emblem of junk art, having appeared in one of the most inept films ever made (Queen of Earth) and some of the most asinine television (Mad Men, The Handmaid’s Tale). — Armond White, National Review, "The Square Might Be the Film of the Year," 27 Oct. 2017 Braying in both human and asinine form, Danny Burstein munches the scenery marvelously. — Jesse Green, New York Times, "Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ as Light as the Open Air," 31 July 2017 Our town officials need to just STOP with these asinine ideas and leave things alone. — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, "A small town fuss erupts: Does Waxhaw have a ‘water tower’ or ‘water tank’?," 19 June 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'asinine.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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