how to pronounce asinine

/ˈæsəˌnaɪn/

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asinine is pronounced in three syllables

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video examples of asinine pronunciation

An example use of asinine in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… that's asinine so what we have to do …”

meaning of asinine

Asinine means foolish, stupid, or lacking in intelligence.

asinine frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word asinine occurs in english on average 0.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics asinine can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that asinine can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;

2) people, society, and culture;