What is another word for preposterous?
1014 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ pɹɪpˈɒstəɹəs], [ pɹɪpˈɒstəɹəs], [ p_ɹ_ɪ_p_ˈɒ_s_t_ə_ɹ_ə_s]
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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.
How to use "Preposterous" in context?
When we use the word "preposterous," we usually mean something that is not only impossible, but also laughable. For example, if someone says that they can swim the English Channel, that would be preposterous. It is impossible for someone to swim the entire length of the Channel, and anyone who says otherwise is likely just joking around.
Similarly, if someone claims to have traveled to the Moon, that would be preposterous as well. There is no way for someone to journey to the Moon, and even if there were, the environment there is extremely hostile and inhospitable.
Paraphrases for Preposterous:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
absurd, ludicrous, nonsense, nonsensical.
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Independent
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Adjective
aberrant, derisory, disgraceful, disproportionate, exorbitant, idiotic, illogical, insane, pathetic, unbearable, stupid.
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Adjective
bizarre, crazy, excessive, fallacious, farcical, foolish, grotesque, incongruous, irrational, laughable, meaningless, outrageous, perverse, pointless, ridiculous, senseless, silly, surreal, unreasonable, wrong-headed.
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Interjection
grotesque, outrageous, ridiculous.
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