N. insensibility, physical insensibility,
obtuseness,
palsy,
paralysis, paraesthesia,
anaesthesia, sleep,
hemiplegia, motor paralysis, vegetable state,
coma, anaesthetic agent, opium, ether,
chloroform,
chloral, nitrous oxide, laughing gas, exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen,
refrigeration V. be insensible, have a thick skin, have a rhinoceros hide, render insensible,
anaesthetize,
blunt,
pall,
obtund,
benumb,
paralyze, put under the influence of chloroform,
stupefy,
stun Adj. insensible, unfeeling,
senseless,
impercipient,
callous,
thick-skinned,
pachydermatous, hard,
hardened, case hardened, proof,
obtuse, dull,
anaesthetic,
comatose,
paralytic,
palsied,
numb, dead
N. absurdity,
absurdness,
imbecility, alogy|, nonsense, utter nonsense,
paradox,
inconsistency,
stultiloquy,
stultiloquence,
nugacity,
blunder,
muddle, bull, irishism|, hibernicism|,
slipslop,
anticlimax,
bathos,
sophism,
farce, galimathias, amphigouri,
rhapsody,
farrago, betise,
extravagance, romance,
sciamachy, sell,
pun, verbal quibble,
macaronic,
jargon,
fustian,
twaddle,
gibberish,
exaggeration,
moonshine, stuff, mare's nest,
quibble,
self-delusion,
vagary,
tomfoolery, poppycock,
mummery, monkey trick,
boutade,
escapade V. play the fool, talk nonsense, parler a tort et a travess, battre la campagne, ἀνεμώλια βάζειν be -absurd
Adj. absurd,
nonsensical,
preposterous,
egregious,
senseless, inconsistent,
ridiculous,
extravagant,
quibbling, self-annulling, self- contradictory,
macaronic,
punning,
foolish,
sophistical, unmeaning, without rhyme or reason,
fantastic Phr. credat judaeus apella, tell it to the marines, faculties
Int. fiddlededee,
pish, pho, "in the name of the prophet—figs!"
N. want of -intelligence, want of - intellect, shadowness,
silliness,
foolishness,
imbecility, incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, weakness of intellect, clouded perception, poor head, apartments to let,
stupidity,
stolidity,
hebetude, dull understanding, meanest capacity, shortsightedness,
incompetence, one's weak side, not one's strong point,
bias,
infatuation, simplicity,
puerility,
babyhood,
dotage,
anility, second childishness,
fatuity,
idiocy,
idiotism,
driveling, folly,
frivolity,
irrationality, trifling,
ineptitude,
nugacity,
inconsistency, lip wisdom,
conceit,
sophistry,
giddiness,
eccentricity,
extravagance,
rashness, act of folly, b, be - imbecile, have no -brains, have no sense,
trifle,
drivel, radoter,
dote,
ramble, play the fool, play the monkey, monkey around, fool around, take leave of one's senses (insanity) 503, not see an inch beyond one's nose, stultify oneself, talk nonsense
Adj. unintelligent, unintellectual, unreasoning, mindless, witless, reasoningless, brainless, halfbaked, having no head, not -bright,
inapprehensible, weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed, buffle headed, chuckle headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded, beef headed, fat witted, fat-headed,
weak-minded,
feeble-minded, dull minded, shallow minded, lack-brained,
rattle-brained, rattle headed, half witted, lean witted, short witted, dull witted,
blunt-witted,
shallow-pated, clod-pated, addle- pated,
dim-sighted, short-sighted,
thick-skulled, weak in the upper story, shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft,
sappy,
spoony, dull, dull as a beetle,
stupid, heavy,
insulse,
obtuse,
blunt,
stolid,
doltish,
asinine, inapt,
prosaic, hebetudinous,
childish, child-like,
infantine,
infantile,
babyish,
babish,
puerile,
anile, simple,
old-womanish,
fatuous,
idiotic,
imbecile,
driveling,
blatant,
babbling,
vacant,
sottish,
bewildered,
blockish, unteachable boeotian, boeotic,
bovine, ungifted,
undiscerning,
unenlightened, unwise, unphilosophical,
apish, simious,
foolish,
silly,
senseless,
irrational,
insensate,
nonsensical,
inept,
maudlin,
narrow-minded,
bigoted,
giddy,
rash,
eccentric,
foolish, unwise,
injudicious, improper, unreasonable, without reason,
ridiculous,
absurd,
idiotic,
silly,
stupid,
asinine, ill-imagined, ill-advised,
ill-judged, ill-devised, mal entendu, inconsistent,
irrational, unphilosophical,
extravagant,
sleeveless, idle, pointless, useless, inexpedient,
frivolous Phr. davus sum non, "a fool's bolt is soon shot" clitellae bovi sunt impositae, "fools rush in where angels fear to tread", il n' a ni bouche ni eperon, "the bookful blockhead, ignorantly read", "to varnish nonsense with the charms of sound"
N. meaninglessness, unmeaningness,
scrabble, empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil, "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing", "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal." nonsense, utter nonsense,
gibberish,
jargon,
jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus,
fustian,
rant,
bombast,
balderdash,
palaver,
flummery,
verbiage,
babble, baverdage, baragouin,
platitude, niaiserie,
inanity, flap-doodle,
rigmarole,
rodomontade,
truism, nugae canorae,
twaddle,
twattle,
fudge,
trash,
garbage,
humbug, poppy-cock, stuff, stuff and nonsense,
bosh,
rubbish,
moonshine,
wish-wash,
fiddle-faddle,
absurdity, vagueness, boilerplate
Adj. unmeaning, meaningless,
senseless,
nonsensical, void of sense, inexpressive, unexpressive,
vacant, not significant, insignificant,
trashy,
washy,
trumpery,
trivial,
fiddle-faddle,
twaddling,
quibbling, unmeant, not expressed,
tacit, inexpressible,
undefinable,
incommunicable