What is another word for preposterous?
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Similar words for preposterous:- absurd (adjective)
- balmy (adjective)
- cockeyed (adjective)
- crazy (adjective)
- droll (adjective)
- egregious (adjective)
- exaggerated (adjective)
- exorbitant (adjective)
- extravagant (adjective)
- extreme (adjective)
- fanciful (adjective)
- fantastic (adjective)
- far-fetched (adjective)
- foolish (adjective)
- grotesque (adjective)
- harebrained (adjective)
- illogical (adjective)
- imbecilic (adjective)
- impossible (adjective)
- improper (adjective)
- incredible (adjective)
- inordinate (adjective)
- insane (adjective)
- irrational (adjective)
- laughable (adjective)
- loco (adjective)
- lunatic (adjective)
- mad (adjective)
- monstrous (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- outlandish (adjective)
- outrageous (adjective)
- prohibitive (adjective)
- rich (adjective)
- ridiculous (adjective)
- silly (adjective)
- tall (adjective)
- unapt (adjective)
- unattainable (adjective)
- unbefitting (adjective)
- unbelievable (adjective)
- unconscionable (adjective)
- unheard-of (adjective)
- unnatural (adjective)
- unrealizable (adjective)
- unreasonable (adjective)
- unthinkable (adjective)
- unworkable (adjective)
- wild (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Preposterous:
adj.
•absurd (adjective)- flaky,
- study at absurd,
- anachronistic,
- jokey,
- campiest,
- for grins,
- off the wall,
- incongruous,
- campy,
- eccentric,
- gagged up,
- inane,
- unusual,
- meaningless,
- invalid,
- bizarre,
- implausible,
- farcical,
- contradictory,
- paradoxical,
- fooling around,
- campier,
- fallacious.
- most strabismic,
- more canted,
- crosseyed,
- squintest,
- cross eyed,
- most askance,
- camest,
- more strabismic,
- more askant,
- most canted,
- more askance,
- most askant.
- short sighted,
- most illconceived,
- out reason,
- more illconceived,
- more impracticable,
- more derisory,
- out all reason,
- more ill-conceived,
- ill conceived,
- illconceived,
- most ill conceived,
- halfbaked,
- out of reason,
- most derisory,
- most ill-conceived,
- more ill conceived,
- in appropriate,
- half baked,
- in-appropriate.
- more crackup,
- most crack-up,
- most crack up,
- more gelastic,
- more crack-up,
- most clownish,
- more clownish,
- riotest,
- more laffer,
- most comic,
- most crackup,
- more crack up,
- funnier,
- most gelastic,
- most laffer.
- caricatural,
- hyperbolic,
- sensational,
- too-too,
- schmaltzy,
- overestimated,
- pretentious,
- overkill,
- hammy,
- over-wrought,
- highly colored,
- out of proportion.
- un-duest,
- over-board,
- most absonant,
- ex pensive,
- un-warranted,
- ex-acting,
- over ones head,
- un warranted,
- over much,
- over board,
- unwarranted,
- ex acting,
- out sight,
- over-much,
- un-duer,
- more overboard,
- un due,
- over one head,
- priciest,
- un duest,
- towering,
- un-due,
- pricier,
- most overboard,
- out of sight,
- more absonant,
- un duer,
- ex-pensive.
- more spendthrift,
- over priced,
- most spendthrift,
- over-priced,
- un balanced,
- un-balanced,
- ostentatious,
- most overpriced,
- grandiose,
- more overpriced,
- un-restrained.
- more fairy tale,
- more curious,
- un-real,
- most fancied,
- pie in sky,
- more fairy-tale,
- pie the sky,
- fictional,
- more fancied,
- notional,
- more fairytale,
- most fairy-tale,
- pie sky,
- most fairytale,
- castles the air,
- castles air,
- most fairy tale.
- most phantasmagorical,
- un-likely,
- more phantasmagorical,
- mis-leading,
- un likeliest,
- un likelier,
- un-likelier,
- mis leading,
- un-likeliest,
- un likely.
- in coherent,
- in-coherent,
- hard swallow,
- far fetched,
- un convincing,
- un-convincing,
- in consequential,
- in-consequential.
- more antic,
- grodier,
- un-canniest,
- un-canny,
- more surrealistic,
- most antic,
- sur realistic,
- un-cannier,
- malformed,
- un cannier,
- un canniest,
- un canny,
- sur-realistic,
- most surrealistic,
- de formed,
- de-formed.
- in-valid,
- more casuistic,
- selfcontradictory,
- in-consequent,
- un-tenable,
- most casuistic,
- un-scientific,
- un-substantial,
- un sound,
- in valid,
- in correct,
- un proved,
- un connected,
- un-sounder,
- most self contradictory,
- more self contradictory,
- most sophistical,
- un sounder,
- most self-contradictory,
- un-soundest,
- un-proved,
- un tenable,
- un substantial,
- more selfcontradictory,
- irrelevant,
- unproved,
- un scientific,
- un-sound,
- most selfcontradictory,
- in-correct,
- in-conclusive,
- in consequent,
- in consistent,
- more sophistical,
- in-consistent,
- more self-contradictory,
- in conclusive,
- un-connected,
- self contradictory.
- infeasible,
- unrealizable,
- no-win,
- NOGO,
- hundred-to-one,
- not a prayer,
- no-go,
- Inexecutable,
- Noway,
- unanswerable,
- unattainable,
- no-way,
- irrealizable,
- unsuitable,
- uncorrectable,
- hardly possible,
- unachievable,
- objectionable,
- out of question,
- unobtainable,
- no go,
- contrary to reason,
- unrecoverable,
- no way,
- unworkable.
- at odds,
- unbefitting,
- off-base,
- unfitting,
- Unapt,
- ill timed,
- illtimed,
- inapposite,
- ill-timed,
- out-of-season,
- out-of-place.
- in supposable,
- in-supposable,
- in-credible,
- more incogitable,
- more insupposable,
- most incogitable,
- in cogitable,
- in-cogitable,
- incredible,
- in credible,
- most insupposable.
- more off the wall,
- un-reasoning,
- un thinking,
- more cockamamie,
- un-thinking,
- more reasonless,
- dis jointed,
- most unreasoning,
- most reasonless,
- dis-jointed,
- more unreasoning,
- dis connected,
- most off-the-wall,
- most cockamamie,
- dis-connected,
- most off the wall,
- more off-the-wall,
- un reasoning.
- more har har,
- most har har,
- more harhar,
- most har-har,
- most harhar,
- most jocose,
- har har,
- more har-har,
- facetious,
- harhar,
- screamest.
- not there,
- mad as a hatter,
- sick in the head,
- nutty as a fruitcake,
- around the bend,
- stark raving mad,
- nutty as fruitcake,
- crazy as a loon,
- not all there.
- in human,
- most teratoid,
- more miscreated,
- dis graceful,
- more teratoid,
- most horrifying,
- in-human,
- dis-graceful,
- Miscreated,
- mis created,
- most miscreated,
- mis-created,
- more horrifying.
- fantastic,
- head-strong,
- harebrained,
- ill-conceived,
- unthinkable,
- castles in air,
- overpriced,
- Absonant,
- farfetched,
- beyond reason,
- grotesque,
- over head,
- blue sky,
- foolish,
- far-fetched,
- up here,
- ridiculous,
- Teratoid,
- out of place,
- rioter,
- rich,
- unreasoning,
- counterintuitive,
- sheepheaded,
- exaggerated,
- cockamamie,
- extravagant,
- lunatic,
- irrational,
- mad,
- outrageous,
- fairy-tale,
- self-willed,
- droll,
- insane,
- surrealistic,
- askant,
- clownish,
- self-contradictory,
- all wet,
- derisory,
- crack-up,
- tall,
- laughing,
- up to here,
- off-the-wall,
- overboard,
- prohibitive,
- strabismic,
- grody,
- impossible,
- reasonless,
- phantasmagorical,
- unconforming,
- squinter,
- Insupposable,
- wild,
- sophistical,
- inordinate,
- fairytale,
- Incogitable,
- har-har,
- unbelievable,
- improper,
- nitwitted,
- unconscionable,
- without basis,
- unreasonable,
- hard to swallow,
- crackup,
- CAMER,
- pricey,
- cam,
- out of all reason,
- rings phony,
- fanciful,
- exorbitant,
- laffer,
- without foundation,
- silly,
- screamer,
- unnatural,
- out of line,
- not following,
- wacky,
- full of hot air,
- Gelastic,
- beyond all reason,
- sappy,
- absurd,
- cockeyed,
- outlandish,
- casuistic,
- crazy,
- castles in the air.
- most splitting,
- more splitting,
- most side-splitting,
- most side splitting,
- more side splitting,
- most slaying,
- side splitting,
- more slaying,
- more side-splitting.
- un befitting,
- in-decent,
- in-delicate,
- in-decorous,
- in decent,
- out line,
- un-befitting,
- in delicate,
- in decorous.
- un godlier,
- un-holy,
- un principled,
- un conscionable,
- un-fair,
- more amoral,
- un-conscionable,
- un just,
- un fairer,
- un holiest,
- un fairest,
- un scrupulous,
- dis-honest,
- un justest,
- un fair,
- most amoral,
- un-godliest,
- un-godly,
- un-holiest,
- un-scrupulous,
- un ethical,
- un holy,
- un-juster,
- un juster,
- un-fairest,
- un-ethical,
- un-holier,
- un-principled,
- un godliest,
- amoral,
- un-godlier,
- un-justest,
- un godly,
- un-fairer,
- un-just,
- dis honest,
- un holier.
- un natural,
- most puton,
- more put on,
- in-sincerest,
- un-conforming,
- madeup,
- most put on,
- super-natural,
- most concocted,
- more unconforming,
- in sincerest,
- in-sincerer,
- more staged,
- un-natural,
- un conforming,
- more imitation,
- most unconforming,
- most imitation,
- in-sincere,
- super natural,
- in sincerer,
- un accountable,
- most staged,
- more put-on,
- in sincere,
- more concocted,
- puton,
- makebelieve.
n.
•Other relevant words: (noun)- dumb,
- Feeble-minded,
- fond,
- wanky,
- mind,
- half-baked,
- Barking,
- nut,
- insanity,
- nutty,
- obtuse,
- dim,
- idiotic,
- dizzy,
- thick,
- ditsy,
- cracked,
- dense,
- certifiable,
- four-oh-four,
- loopy,
- moronic,
- head,
- mental,
- risible,
- screwy,
- bumbling,
- spastic,
- asinine,
- goofy,
- chump,
- wrongheaded,
- slow,
- farce,
- vacuous,
- gormless,
- gibber,
- ill-advised,
- stupid,
- Weak-minded,
- nonsensical,
- birdbrain,
- messed up,
- slow-witted,
- fatuous,
- no-account,
- puerile,
- oafish,
- credulous,
- daft,
- lumpen,
- half-assed,
- senseless,
- inconsistent,
- gullible,
- imbecile,
- dorky,
- nuts,
- fathead,
- madcap,
- simple-minded,
- imprudent,
- loony,
- out of 2,
- subnormal,
- dozy,
- dull,
- batty,
- infinite,
- dotty,
- impolitic,
- Daffy,
- cranky,
- unwise,
- misbegotten,
- insanely,
- crackpot,
- crackers,
- empty-headed,
- shit,
- witless,
- brainless,
- all,
- fondly,
- dopey,
- drivel,
- cuckoo,
- uptake,
- adolescent,
- lumpish,
- funny,
- bovine,
- bananas,
- wisdom,
- mindless,
- injudicious,
- peabrained,
- fool,
- potty,
- barmy,
- -brained,
- ludicrous,
- joke,
- ditzy,
- namby-pamby,
- dim-witted,
- bonkers,
- cretin,
- dippy,
- vapid,
- loco,
- half-witted,
- judgment,
- laughable,
- inadvisable,
- illogical,
- uncritical.
Other synonyms:
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- jerky,
- softheaded.
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- obscene.
- goosey,
- overgrown,
- pointless,
- aberrant,
- amusing,
- romantic,
- fantasque,
- optimistic,
- Highflying,
- buffoonish,
- prodigious,
- doggerel,
- fishy,
- peculiar,
- simpleminded,
- immoderate,
- purposeless,
- queer,
- disgraceful,
- enormous,
- would-be,
- undue,
- scandalous,
- open to doubt,
- mythic,
- ineffective,
- fantastical,
- puckish,
- closed-out,
- nitwit,
- unscientific,
- quixotic,
- nonsense,
- crocked,
- unbecoming,
- inflated,
- stilted,
- fruitless,
- askew,
- gross,
- unearned,
- dimwit,
- jocose,
- Hyperbolical,
- oxymoronic,
- pixyish,
- blockhead,
- rococo,
- inconceivable,
- airheaded,
- singular,
- lunkheaded,
- fault,
- hopeless,
- increase,
- erroneous,
- high-flown,
- starry-eyed,
- swinging,
- mind-boggling,
- unentitled,
- shameful,
- dreamy,
- jocular,
- dopy,
- unsubstantial,
- macaronic,
- extortionate,
- unique,
- dubitable,
- overblown,
- overwrought,
- fancy-woven,
- spiraling,
- problematic,
- mistaken,
- thin,
- featherheaded,
- chimeric,
- irresponsible,
- inflationary,
- hollow,
- mirthful,
- invalidity,
- unrealistic,
- unseemly,
- inept,
- reckless,
- out of the question,
- astonishing,
- Doubtable,
- bombastic,
- strained,
- monstrous,
- unimpressive,
- unconvincing,
- impracticable,
- outre,
- punning,
- booby,
- ungodly,
- ineffectual,
- unreal,
- gothic,
- burlesque,
- tang dynasty,
- barred,
- offbeat,
- futile,
- questionable,
- unimaginable,
- fey,
- absurdness,
- fancy,
- dolt,
- Pathetical,
- featherbrained,
- soused,
- gouge,
- uncommon,
- improbable,
- quibbling,
- pathetic,
- cutthroat,
- stretched,
- wet,
- false,
- goosy,
- taking the cake,
- Blague,
- delusion,
- unperceiving,
- crotchety,
- vacant,
- prohibited,
- loaded,
- ill-judged,
- exacting,
- uncalled-for,
- dreamlike,
- erratic,
- Misbecoming,
- cock-eyed,
- Unowed,
- not on,
- doubtful,
- absurdity,
- unacceptable,
- miss,
- steep,
- unproductive,
- bootless,
- baloney,
- pinheaded,
- undiscerning,
- rigmarole,
- witty,
- far-out,
- chimerical,
- humorous,
- lapse,
- insupportable,
- bubbleheaded,
- problematical,
- unworthy,
- too much,
- absolutely not,
- strange,
- Fatuitous,
- visionary,
- unheard-of,
- birthday,
- mistake,
- quaint,
- rash,
- unmerited,
- gooselike,
- hard to believe,
- comic,
- hilarious,
- unsatisfactory,
- empty,
- misguided,
- error,
- overdone,
- vain,
- giddy,
- Unmeet,
- florid,
- intemperate,
- oversight,
- waggish,
- Excluded,
- beyond belief,
- immense,
- vast,
- stupendous,
- question,
- usurious,
- worthless,
- dissipated,
- extraordinary,
- anomalous,
- unlikely,
- whimsical,
- unjustifiable,
- screwball,
- undeserving,
- sloshed,
- short-sighted,
- hare-brained,
- deviation,
- uncontained,
- warped,
- excessive,
- pie-eyed,
- Unpractical,
- slapstick,
- idealistic,
- anserine,
- Unreasoned,
- maggoty,
- Gouging,
- aimless,
- side-splitting,
- intolerable,
- unfit,
- unthinking,
- flimflam,
- desperate,
- suspect,
- abnormal,
- idiot,
- fallaciousness,
- blind,
- Absurdities,
- useless,
- fictitious,
- disproportionate,
- suspicious,
- unjustified,
- marvelous,
- skyrocketing,
- undeserved,
- flagrant,
- beyond consideration,
- unrestrained,
- falsehood,
- blunder,
- forced,
- Crack-brained,
- unmatched,
- thoughtless,
- playful,
- lightheaded,
- myopic,
- odd,
- baroque,
- fabulous,
- foolhardy,
- pitiable,
- impractical,
- Seemless,
- bosh,
- unperceptive,
- grandiloquent,
- dunce.
Paraphrases for Preposterous:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
ludicrous, nonsensical, absurd, nonsense.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
stupid, idiotic, insane, illogical, derisory, exorbitant, pathetic, aberrant, disgraceful, unbearable, disproportionate.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
unreasonable, pointless, farcical, laughable, ridiculous, outrageous, senseless, irrational, perverse, incongruous, foolish, fallacious, silly, meaningless, bizarre, wrong-headed, surreal, crazy, grotesque, excessive.
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Interjection
ridiculous, outrageous, grotesque.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Preposterous:
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adj.
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ridiculous, bizarre
intelligent, possible, smart, serious, plausible, plain, sound, believable, tenable, logical, good, wise, poor, responsible, practical, bad, rational, reasonable, balanced, credible.
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Other antonyms:
undeniable, earnest, demonstrated, established, substantial, consistent, sagacious, prudent, sane, realistic, true, indisputable, infallible, sapient, certain, indubitable, demonstrable, judicious, unquestionable, sage, incontrovertible, valid, incontestable, conceivable, well-advised, sensible.
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ridiculous, bizarre