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/prɪpˈɑstərəs/ /prɪpˈɑstrəs/ Listen

adjective

Preposterous adj.

Having that first which ought to be last; inverted in order. (Obs.) "The method I take may be censured as preposterous, because I thus treat last of the antediluvian earth, which was first in the order of nature."

Contrary to nature or reason; not adapted to the end; utterly and glaringly foolish; unreasonably absurd; perverted. "Most preposterous conclusions." "Preposterous ass, that never read so far!"

Synonyms: Absurd; perverted; wrong; irrational; foolish; monstrous. See Absurd.

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"Preposterous" Quotes from Famous Books

... sank. The hole had been there six months, and he had found nothing witty to say about it, and at first sight Mr. Cibber had done its business. And on such men he and his portrait were to attempt a preposterous delusion. Then there was Snarl, who wrote critiques on painting, and guided the national taste. The unlucky exhibitor was in a cold sweat. He led the way, like a ...

— Peg Woffington • Charles Reade

... this with all possible gravity, but I thought I could see a twinkle at the corner of his eye. I smiled politely, as I did not want to contradict him, and, at the same time, did not wish him to believe that I swallowed his preposterous story. ...

— The Land of the Kangaroo - Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent • Thomas Wallace Knox

... his journey. To his surprise, his hostess asked him to stop a moment. She said that he owed her a thousand pounds, solemnly declaring that he had borrowed that sum from her inn long years ago. The traveller was astonished greatly at this, as it seemed to him a preposterous demand. So fetching his trunk, he soon hid himself by drawing a ...

— Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories • Mrs. M. Chaplin Ayrton

... was admired, raved about, loved even, goes without saying. After the first month she held the refusal of half the beaux of New Orleans. Men did absurd, undignified, preposterous things for her; and she? Love? Marry? The idea never occurred to her. She treated the most exquisite of her pretenders no better than she treated her Paris gowns, for the matter of that. She could not even bring herself to listen to a proposal patiently; whistling to her dogs, in the ...

— Balcony Stories • Grace E. King

... it too preposterous for caudal comment; eyes and ears and nose were stretched toward the ...

— The Return of Blue Pete • Luke Allan

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