preposterous

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  1. adjective Contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd. See Synonyms at foolish.

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  • The scheme died in Thorby's brain; it was preposterous, anyhow -- he might be willing to chance a strange planet, but Mata was no fraki. —  Citizen Of The Galaxy
  • At this point I agreed with you that it was preposterous, and was glad to find that all my deductions had been correct. —  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
  • "It's -- preposterous --" Armiston began, and halted. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • Abbot Braumin had a heavy sword now, hanging in the air above the head of Duke Targon Bree Kalas, and Kalas 'own inability to dismiss the hints as preposterous were all the proof that Braumin needed to know that what Dellman suspected was true: Duke Kalas of Wester-Honce, per - haps the closest adviser in all the world to King Danube Brock Ursal him - self, had utilized powries, wretched bloody caps, in his quest to strengthen the power of the Throne in Palmaris. —  Mortalis
  • This whole thing is preposterous, anyway. —  Higher Authority
 

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  1. From Latin praeposterus, inverted, unseasonable : prae-, pre- + posterus, coming behind (from post, behind; see apo- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. = Spanish prepóstero = Portuguese Italian prepostero, from Latin præposterus, with the hinder part before, reversed, inverted, perverted, from præ, before, + posterus, coming after: see posterity.
 

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