All preposterous synonyms
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P p noun preposterous
- extravagance β Lack of restraint in spending money or use of resources.
- irresponsibility β said, done, or characterized by a lack of a sense of responsibility: His refusal to work shows him to be completely irresponsible.
- witlessness β lacking wit or intelligence; stupid; foolish.
- daftness β senseless, stupid, or foolish.
- absurdness β utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false: an absurd explanation.
- folly β the state or quality of being foolish; lack of understanding or sense.
- dottiness β The state or quality of being dotty, mildly insane or preoccupied.
- insanity β the condition of being insane; a derangement of the mind. Synonyms: dementia, lunacy, madness, craziness, mania, aberration.
adjective preposterous
- inexecutable β That cannot be executed or carried out.
- insupposable β Incapable of being supposed; inconceivable.
- extravagant β Lacking restraint in spending money or using resources.
- wacky β odd or irrational; crazy: They had some wacky plan for selling more books.
- jokey β lacking in seriousness; frivolous: The editorial had an offensively jokey tone for such an important subject.
- overestimated β Simple past tense and past participle of overestimate.
- wild β living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
- exaggerated β That has been described as greater than it actually is; abnormally increased or enlarged.
- whacko β wacko.
- overboard β over the side of a ship or boat, especially into or in the water: to fall overboard.
adj preposterous
- laughable β such as to cause laughter; funny; amusing; ludicrous.
- impossible β not possible; unable to be, exist, happen, etc.
- clownish β If you describe a person's appearance or behaviour as clownish, you mean that they look or behave rather like a clown, and often that they appear rather foolish.
- askant β askance
- blue sky β fanciful; impractical: blue-sky ideas.
- crazy β If you describe someone or something as crazy, you think they are very foolish or strange.
- mad β mentally disturbed; deranged; insane; demented.
- lamebrained β a dunce; booby; fool.
- far-fetched β improbable; not naturally pertinent; being only remotely connected; forced; strained: He brought in a far-fetched example in an effort to prove his point.
- campiest β of, relating to, or characterized by camp: a campy send-up of romantic operetta.
- incredible β so extraordinary as to seem impossible: incredible speed.
- laughing β that laughs or is given to laughter: a laughing child.
- hare-brained β giddy; reckless.
- harebrained β giddy; reckless.
- absurd β If you say that something is absurd, you are criticizing it because you think that it is ridiculous or that it does not make sense.
- absonant β inharmonious
- inordinate β not within proper or reasonable limits; immoderate; excessive: He drank an inordinate amount of wine.
- insane β not sane; not of sound mind; mentally deranged.
- inapposite β not apposite; not pertinent.
- lunatic β (no longer in technical use; now considered offensive) an insane person.
- moonstruck β mentally deranged, supposedly by the influence of the moon; crazed.
- balmy β Balmy weather is fairly warm and pleasant.
- at odds β If someone is at odds with someone else, or if two people are at odds, they are disagreeing or quarrelling with each other.
- all wet β wrong; mistaken
- amoral β If you describe someone as amoral, you do not like the way they behave because they do not seem to care whether what they do is right or wrong.
- miscreated β miscreated.
- farcical β pertaining to or of the nature of farce.
- castles in the air β plural of castle in the air.
- cam β a slider or roller attached to a rotating shaft to give a particular type of reciprocating motion to a part in contact with its profile
- caricatural β a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.