preposterous
absurd, ridiculous
TRANSLATION
absurd, lächerlich, sinnlos, grotesk
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"Meanwhile, Bush's victory speech contained the PREPOSTEROUS claim that he 'won the poll the Iowa way -- neighbor to neighbor. In point of fact, he won it the Washington way -- donor to donor."
(Arianna Online - August 16th 1999)
(Arianna Online - August 16th 1999)
Did you
know?
pre-pos-terous
If you study the word preposterous, you can see it's actually quite logical: It's from Latin pre and posterus, or literally "before following behind" -- which is absurd indeed, but a good way to remember it!
In a business context you might translate "absurde Forderung" as "preposterous demand"
If you study the word preposterous, you can see it's actually quite logical: It's from Latin pre and posterus, or literally "before following behind" -- which is absurd indeed, but a good way to remember it!
In a business context you might translate "absurde Forderung" as "preposterous demand"
