Preposterous (adjective)
[pri-pos-ter-uhs] / prɪˈpɒs tər əs/
Meaning: something that is extremely silly and unreasonable.
If someone came to you and said something extremely silly like “The earth is not round, it is flat.”
You can say, “That is preposterous.“
Imagine someone came to you and said, “In the future electric cars will be so cheap that you can buy a Tesla for $100.” You can say, “What ? that is preposterous.”
More examples using preposterous:
- Some people think brown cows give chocolate milk, that is preposterous.
- The whole idea of flying cars was preposterous 10 years ago, not anymore.
- Storyline of great movies is sometimes preposterous, for example, Jurassic Park.
- The prices at the airport are preposterously high because the airport takes a 30% cut.
Other forms of preposterous:
Preposterousness (noun)
Everybody laughed at the preposterousness of John’s idea.
Preposterously (adverb)
John preposterously suggested that the company should switch to manual record keeping.
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