Apish

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Apish \Ap"ish\, a.
     Having the qualities of an ape; prone to imitate in a servile
     manner. Hence: Apelike; fantastically silly; foppish;
     affected; trifling.
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           The apish gallantry of a fantastic boy.  --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  apish
       adj : being or given to servile imitation [syn: {apelike}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  79 Moby Thesaurus words for "apish":
     asinine, batty, befooled, beguiled, besotted, brainless,
     buffoonish, cockeyed, crazy, credulous, daffy, daft, dazed,
     delineatory, depictive, dizzy, doting, dumb, echoic, embodying,
     emulative, fatuitous, fatuous, figurative, flaky, fond, fool,
     foolheaded, foolish, fuddled, futile, gaga, goofy, graphic, gulled,
     ideographic, idiotic, illustrational, illustrative, imbecile,
     imitative, inane, incarnating, inept, infatuated, insane, kooky,
     limning, loony, mad, maudlin, mimetic, mimic, mimish, moronic,
     nutty, onomatopoeic, onomatopoetic, personifying, pictographic,
     pictorial, portraying, representational, representative,
     representing, sappy, screwy, senseless, sentimental, silly,
     simulative, stupid, symbolizing, thoughtless, typifying, vivid,
     wacky, wet, witless