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ASININE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does asinine mean?
• ASININE (adjective)
The adjective ASININE has 1 sense:
1. extremely silly or stupid
Familiarity information: ASININE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extremely silly or stupid
Synonyms:
Similar:
stupid (lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity)
Derivation:
asininity (the quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with stubbornness)
Context examples
His reply was simply contemptuous, given in a pause in which he turned his eyes from Mrs. Harker to me, instantly turning them back again:—What an asinine question!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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