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asinary

asinary adjective: synonym of asinine (“ass-like, donkey-like, in sutbbornness, foolishness, or other ways”).

Adjective

asinary (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Synonym of asinine (“ass-like, donkey-like, in sutbbornness, foolishness, or other ways”).
    • Even in societies, where reason in lovely fimplicity beckons for address, and learning offers her brightest treasures for the easy return of acceptance, this prejudice will be frequently found to derive its origin and power from presumptuous ignorance. In spite of the ridicule, or severe reproof...1804, David Phineas Adams, Samuel Cooper Thacher, The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, page 195
    • Although my subject, that I might be strictly asinary, has led me to a grave and serious treatment, it is not unfertile in more trivial suggestions. In England, where cruelty to animals of all kinds has attained its maximum, this Paria of the quadrupeds endures so large a share of outrage that I...1822, The New Monthly Magazine, page 159
    Synonyms:
    asinine

Examples of asinary in a sentence

  • Although my subject, that I might be strictly asinary, has led me to a grave and serious treatment, it is not unfertile in more trivial suggestions.1822, The New Monthly Magazine, page 159:
  • The donkeys and mules are of diminutive sizes, but retain their asinary qualities in as great a degree as their patient brethren in the other parts of the world.1844, Antigua and the Antiguans: a Full Account of the Colony and Its Inhabitants from the Time of the Caribs to the Present Day...

Synonyms of asinary

Origin of asinary

From Latin asinārius.

Questions about asinary

What does asinary mean?
Asinary means synonym of asinine (“ass-like, donkey-like, in sutbbornness, foolishness, or other ways”).
How do you use asinary in a sentence?
Although my subject, that I might be strictly asinary, has led me to a grave and serious treatment, it is not unfertile in more trivial suggestions.
What part of speech is asinary?
Asinary is an adjective.

Words near asinary in the dictionary

  1. Asimovianism
  2. Asimovs
  3. Asimus
  4. Asimuses
  5. Asin
  6. asinary
  7. asindero
  8. asinderos
  9. asine
  10. asinego
  11. asinegos

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