Asinine

3 definitions found

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

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  asinine
       adj : complacently or inanely foolish [syn: {fatuous}, {inane}, {mindless},
              {vacuous}]

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

  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