unasinous

unasinous adjective: sharing the same amount of stupidity; displaying ignorance or foolishness by all.

Adjective

unasinous (not comparable)

Sharing the same amount of stupidity; displaying ignorance or foolishness by all.
- Lighting your hands on fire and lighting your feet on fire are unasinous.
- Hobbes entitles his sixth "Lesson," "Of Manners," and prostrates his adversaries with the following parting shot (taking care to italicize the complimentary epithets employed — italics were in great requisition in those days): "So go your ways, you Uncivil Ellesiastics, Inhuman Divines, Dedoctors...1880, George Sylvester Morris, British Thought and Thinkers, page 164

The translators and commentators seem to be unasinous in giving us two, apparently because the poet shouts "Wait!" at about the point where the anatomy lesson gets a little too precious.1966, Dale L. Plank, Pasternak's lyric: a study of sound and imagery, page 62:
Here were representatives of three different, unasinous points of view, each deeply opposed to the others, and yet all attacking her!1990, David Brin, Earth, page 254:

From Latin ūnus (“one”) + Latin asinus (“donkey, ass; idiot”) + ous, after unanimous.

What does unasinous mean?: Unasinous means sharing the same amount of stupidity; displaying ignorance or foolishness by all.
How do you use unasinous in a sentence?: The translators and commentators seem to be unasinous in giving us two, apparently because the poet shouts "Wait!" at about the point where the anatomy lesson gets a little too precious.
What part of speech is unasinous?: Unasinous is an adjective.

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