Synonyms: anserine, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky, dopey, dopy
Definition: having or revealing stupidity
Usage: ridiculous anserine behavior; a dopey answer; a dopey kid; some fool idea about rewriting authors' books
Similar words: stupid
Definition: lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
Synonyms: foolish
Definition: devoid of good sense or judgment
Usage: foolish remarks; a foolish decision
Similar words: absurd, derisory, cockeyed, idiotic, ludicrous, laughable, preposterous, ridiculous, nonsensical
Definition: incongruous;inviting ridicule
Usage: the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework; that's a cockeyed idea; ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer; a contribution so small as to be laughable; it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion; a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history; her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous
Similar words: mindless, inane, asinine, fatuous, vacuous
Definition: devoid of intelligence
Similar words: wacky, whacky, zany, goofy, cockamamie, cockamamy, sappy, silly
Definition: ludicrous, foolish
Usage: gave me a cockamamie reason for not going; wore a goofy hat; a silly idea; some wacky plan for selling more books
Similar words: fond
Definition: absurd or silly because unlikely
Usage: fond hopes of becoming President; fond fancies
Similar words: harebrained, insane, mad
Definition: very foolish
Usage: harebrained ideas; took insane risks behind the wheel; a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains
Similar words: misguided, ill-conceived
Definition: poorly conceived or thought out
Usage: an ill-conceived plan to take over the company
Similar words: scatterbrained, scatty, rattlebrained, rattlepated
Definition: lacking sense or discretion
Usage: his rattlebrained crackpot ideas; how rattlepated I am! I've forgotten what I came for- Glenway Westcott
Similar words: unwise
Definition: showing or resulting from lack of judgment or wisdom
Usage: an unwise investor is soon impoverished