Explore Asinine through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like fatuous or inane. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Asinine in a sentence
Asinine meaning
- Very foolish; failing to exercise intelligence or judgement or rationality.
- Characteristic of an ass (an asshole): objectionably inconsiderate or jerky.
- Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of donkeys.
Using Asinine
- The main meaning on this page is: Very foolish; failing to exercise intelligence or judgement or rationality. | Characteristic of an ass (an asshole): objectionably inconsiderate or jerky. | Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of donkeys.
- Useful related words include: fatuous, inane, mindless, vacuous.
- In the example corpus, asinine often appears in combinations such as: is asinine, an asinine.
Context around Asinine
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 2 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Asinine
- In this selection, "asinine" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, flops, simply, absolutely, chest, position and way stand out and add context to how "asinine" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and an asinine position to and bankruptcies flops asinine remarks and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "asinine" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and abdulai, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with asinine
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It’s an asinine version of politics. (7 words)
Asking a CA student a question like this is asinine. (10 words)
Butcher said he believed that “rebuilding the current drawbridge is absolutely asinine! (12 words)
Smith is the cinch Comeback Player of the Year and a great feel-good story, but the Football Team would be wise to gloss over his 4-1 record as a starter (because, you know, assigning won-loss records to individual players in a team sport is asinine). (48 words)
In a bubble, these sure are statistics — but to sound an alarm bell based on non-IP titles and smaller indies not meeting the box office triumphs of viral sensations like "M3GAN" or dependable IPs like "Scream VI" or "Evil Dead Rise" is asinine. (44 words)
He is rock music's Robin Williams: his rapid-fire skits include the tortured artist, the naive hick, the asinine beer-monster, the suave clubber and, most often of all, the myopic, lisping clown prince that is rumoured to be the genuine article. (43 words)
Could anything be more contradictory or asinine than such a notion as this? (13 words)
We finally got the Sunday sales, but can we just throw out all of these asinine liquor laws? (18 words)
Butcher said he believed that “rebuilding the current drawbridge is absolutely asinine! (12 words)
Example sentences (20)
Graham’s asinine chest thumping only succeeded in making any would-be Putin assassin look like an American pawn.
Trying to get multiple 1st or even 1 first rd pick is asinine.
He promised to build a massive wall to block all borders; a lie and an asinine position to be sure.
In a bubble, these sure are statistics — but to sound an alarm bell based on non-IP titles and smaller indies not meeting the box office triumphs of viral sensations like "M3GAN" or dependable IPs like "Scream VI" or "Evil Dead Rise" is asinine.
I think that’s a asinine way to talk about the NBA,” Redick said in response to Felger.
Could anything be more contradictory or asinine than such a notion as this?
He is rock music's Robin Williams: his rapid-fire skits include the tortured artist, the naive hick, the asinine beer-monster, the suave clubber and, most often of all, the myopic, lisping clown prince that is rumoured to be the genuine article.
Smith is the cinch Comeback Player of the Year and a great feel-good story, but the Football Team would be wise to gloss over his 4-1 record as a starter (because, you know, assigning won-loss records to individual players in a team sport is asinine).
Thankfully not much of it was along the lines of Van Morrison and Eric Clapton’s asinine anti-lockdown duet last month.
That said, freedom of expression should not be equal to asinine innuendos and problematic imagery.
This asinine claim was based on a couple of showing routine removal of standard blue mailboxes in areas where they have been removed pursuant to very low usage.
Delivered in a very serious manner it may be asinine or it may be genius, but it sure is some catchy punk.
In business, Trump could paper over his bankruptcies, flops, asinine remarks, and failed cons.
It’s an effect achieved not through asinine gestures toward a “cinematic universe,” but by the virtues of the film’s unfaltering eye that never looks away from its vision to wink.
Simms statement that if Aaron Rodgers was the Chiefs QB that the Chiefs would have won the AFC Championship Game in regulation time is simply asinine.
We finally got the Sunday sales, but can we just throw out all of these asinine liquor laws?
Asking a CA student a question like this is asinine.
Butcher said he believed that “rebuilding the current drawbridge is absolutely asinine!
I’d still be enlisted to this day, and the option they offered me was online college, which seemed asinine to me at the time, and even now.
It’s an asinine version of politics.
Common combinations with asinine
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- is asinine 4×
- an asinine 2×