The new regulation banning sleeveless tops in yearbook photos is pretty asinine, if you ask me.
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Asinine
Synonyms for "asinine" (154 found)
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Adjective(4 words)
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Translations
63 translations across 22 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- أَبْلَه adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- حِمَارِيّ adj (of or relating to a donkey)
- سَخِيف adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
Bulgarian
1 entries- магарешки adj (of or relating to a donkey)
Catalan
2 entries- asinal adj (of or relating to a donkey)
- asiní adj (of or relating to a donkey)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 愚蠢 adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
Danish
3 entries- dum adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- enfoldig adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- torsket adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
Dutch
3 entries- achterlijk adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- ezelachtig adj (of or relating to a donkey)
- oerdom adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
Finnish
4 entries- aasi adj (of or relating to a donkey)
- aasimainen adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- aasimainen adj (of or relating to a donkey)
- aasin adj (of or relating to a donkey)
French
4 entries- asinin adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- asinin adj (of or relating to a donkey)
- con adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- crétin adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
German
4 entries- dumm adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- dämlich adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- dümmlich adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- eselhaft adj (of or relating to a donkey)
Hungarian
3 entries- ostoba adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- szamaras adj (of or relating to a donkey)
- szamárszerű adj (of or relating to a donkey)
Italian
4 entries- asinesco adj (of or relating to a donkey)
- asinina adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- asinino adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- asinino adj (of or relating to a donkey)
Japanese
1 entries- 愚か adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
Latin
1 entries- asinīnus adj (of or relating to a donkey)
Macedonian
2 entries- глуп adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- мага́решки adj (of or relating to a donkey)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- enfoldig adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- eselaktig adj (of or relating to a donkey)
- stupid adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- toskete adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
Persian
1 entries- احمقانه adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
Polish
2 entries- debilny adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- ośli adj (of or relating to a donkey)
Portuguese
3 entries- asinino adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- asinino adj (of or relating to a donkey)
- asnal adj (of or relating to a donkey)
Romanian
1 entries- măgăresc adj (of or relating to a donkey)
Russian
4 entries- глу́пый adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- деби́льный adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- осли́ный adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- осли́ный adj (of or relating to a donkey)
Spanish
3 entries- asinino adj (of or relating to a donkey)
- asnal adj (of or relating to a donkey)
- estúpido adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
Swedish
3 entries- enfaldig adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- åsnelik adj (failing to exercise intelligence or judgment)
- åsnelik adj (of or relating to a donkey)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
That's asinine.
Source: tatoeba (12380869)
Tom's behavior this evening has been asinine.
Source: tatoeba (12380875)
That was an asinine remark.
Source: tatoeba (12380877)
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