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1 izokrenut
• preposterous; scrambled; warped; wry -
2 besmislen
• absurd; doggerel; empty; farcial; fatuous; foolish; gaga; gibberish; insensate; meaningless; meaninless; nonsensical; pointless; preposterous; purposeless; ridiculous; rigmarole; senseless; silly; unmeaning; unwise; vacuous -
3 izopačen
• abusive; corrupt; corrupted; degenerate; distorted; joint; out of joint; perverse; perversive; preposterous; sophistical; tortuous; vicious; warped; wry -
4 izvrnut
• perverse; preposterous; topsy-turvy; turned; upset; wry -
5 naopak
• abusive; cross grained; cross-grained; cursed; curst; inside out; invert; inverted; out of the way; out-of-the-way; perverse; preposterous; sinister; take amiss; topsy-turvy; untoward -
6 nepostojan
• astatic; capricious; changeable; changeful; corky; desultory; flighty; fluid; fugacious; impermanent; inconstant; labile; motable; movable; mutable; preposterous; sleazy; transient; translatory; unballasted; uncertain; unsetted; unstable; unsteadfast; unsteady; upsteadfast; variab -
7 obrnut
• converse; inverse; invert; inverted; negative; preposterous; reverse -
8 posuvraćen
• invert; inverted; out of the way; preposterous; reflex; turn-over -
9 promenljiv
• changeable; commutable; convertible; fickle; metabolic; mobile; modifiable; mustable; mutable; mutant; preposterous; replaceable; shifting; swinging; variable; variant; varying; versatile; volare
См. также в других словарях:
Preposterous — Pre*pos ter*ous, a. [L. praeposterus; prae before + posterus coming after, latter. See {Posterior}.] [1913 Webster] 1. Having that first which ought to be last; inverted in order. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The method I take may be censured as… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
preposterous — index excessive, exorbitant, impossible, incredible, inept (inappropriate), inordinate, irrational … Law dictionary
preposterous — 1540s, from L. praeposterus absurd, contrary to nature, lit. before behind (Cf. topsy turvy, cart before the horse), from prae before + posterus subsequent … Etymology dictionary
preposterous — absurd, *foolish, silly Analogous words: irrational, unreasonable: bizarre, grotesque, *fantastic … New Dictionary of Synonyms
preposterous — [adj] ridiculous, bizarre absurd, asinine, crazy, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fantastic, far out*, foolish, harebrained*, impossible, incredible, insane, irrational, laughable, ludicrous, monstrous, nonsensical, out of the… … New thesaurus
preposterous — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ utterly absurd or ridiculous. DERIVATIVES preposterously adverb preposterousness noun. ORIGIN Latin praeposterus reversed, absurd … English terms dictionary
preposterous — [prē päs′tər əs, pripäs′tər əs] adj. [L praeposterus < prae , before (see PRE ) + posterus, following: see POSTERIOR] 1. Now Rare with the first last and the last first; inverted 2. so contrary to nature, reason, or common sense as to be… … English World dictionary
preposterous — adj. preposterous to + inf. (it s preposterous to speak of such things) * * * [prɪ pɒst(ə)rəs] preposterous to + inf. (it s preposterous to speak of such things) … Combinatory dictionary
preposterous — [16] Preposterous originated as a Latin oxymoron, praeposterus. This was 393 prevaricate coined from prae ‘before’ and posterus ‘coming after, next’, a derivative of post ‘after’. It denoted ‘the wrong way round, out of order’ (and indeed that… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
preposterous — [[t]prɪpɒ̱st(ə)rəs[/t]] ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe something as preposterous, you mean that it is extremely unreasonable and foolish. The whole idea was preposterous. ...their preposterous claim that they had unearthed a plot. Syn:… … English dictionary
preposterous — [16] Preposterous originated as a Latin oxymoron, praeposterus. This was coined from prae ‘before’ and posterus ‘coming after, next’, a derivative of post ‘after’. It denoted ‘the wrong way round, out of order’ (and indeed that was how English… … Word origins
