Asinine \As"i*nine\, a. [L. asininus, fr. asinus ass. See
Ass.]
Of or belonging to, or having the qualities of, the ass, as
stupidity and obstinacy. "Asinine nature." --B. Jonson.
"Asinine feast." --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
asinine
adj : complacently or inanely foolish [syn: fatuous, inane, mindless,
vacuous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
127 Moby Thesaurus words for "asinine":
Boeotian, absurd, airy, apish, batty, beef-brained, beef-witted,
befooled, beguiled, besotted, blockish, bovid, bovine, brainless,
buffoonish, caprid, caprine, catchpenny, chumpish, cloddish,
cockeyed, cowish, cowlike, crass, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft,
dazed, deerlike, dense, dizzy, doltish, doting, dullard, dumb,
duncical, duncish, empty, equestrian, equine, fat, fatuitous,
fatuous, flaky, flimsy, fond, fool, foolheaded, foolish, fribble,
fribbling, frivolous, frothy, fuddled, futile, gaga, goatish,
goatlike, goofy, gross, gulled, hircine, hoggish, hoofed, horsy,
idiotic, idle, imbecile, inane, ineducable, inept, infatuated,
insane, irrational, klutzy, kooky, light, loony, lumpish, mad,
maudlin, mindless, moronic, mulish, nugacious, nugatory, nutty,
oafish, opaque, otiose, ovine, piggish, puerile, ruminant, sappy,
screwy, senseless, sentimental, shallow, sheepish, sheeplike,
silly, slender, slight, sottish, stupid, superficial, swinish,
thick, thoughtless, trifling, trite, trivial, ungulate,
unreasonable, unteachable, unwitty, vacuous, vain, vapid, wacky,
weak-minded, wet, windy, witless, wrongheaded
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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