surd

adjective

Definition of surdnext
as in irrational

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  1. irrational
  2. illogical
  3. fallacious
  4. unreasonable
  5. thoughtless
  6. idiotic
  7. obtuse
  8. unsound
Adjective
  • The lines — in banana yellows, tangerine oranges, cranberry reds — twist and turn and suggest an irrational understanding of how the universe works.
    Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Conversely, what then could be more wasteful, more undesirable, and more irrational than negating a large share of these conversion gains by wasting them?
    Vaclav Smil, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of irrational
Adjective
  • Curiosity In The Billable Hour World In a world where every minute counts, taking what may feel like the long way around can seem illogical.
    Hunter McMahon, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
  • This is a holiday movie, so Avery and Logan decide to handle this situation in the most illogical way possible.
    Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of illogical
Adjective
  • But hard evidence in both our nation’s history and our present shows that this reasoning is fallacious.
    Ana Raquel Minian, TIME, 30 May 2024
  • And why not seek the truth, to give order and organization to a chaotic and fallacious narrative and investigative material?
    Boris Sollazzo, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2024
Definition of fallacious
Adjective
  • Left in the dust ‘Cruise’ driverless robot taxis are seen at a parking lot as California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) revokes its self-driving car permit and citing ‘unreasonable risk to public safety’ in San Francisco, California, USA on October 24, 2023.
    Kristian Burt, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
  • To determine whether those amounts posed an unreasonable risk of harm, the agency compared them to a specific benchmark — the highest concentration of formaldehyde measured by government monitors in outdoor air between 2015 and 2020.
    Sharon Lerner and Al Shaw, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of unreasonable
Adjective
  • Cash is also seen as thoughtless and low-effort, says Julian Givi, associate professor of marketing at West Virginia University.
    Allie Volpe, Vox, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Oz’s decision to close that sewer door could be chalked down to a terrible mistake, the thoughtless actions of a child.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of thoughtless
Adjective
  • Too many young people are making idiotic short-term financial decisions that hamper long-term success.
    Chandler Dean, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Beyond the Lungs Two other cardiac cases impressed me — and blew away the idiotic notion that young people are immune to COVID-19.
    Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2020
Definition of idiotic
Adjective
  • The dismissals were compelled by twin obtuse opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in the Department of Justice issued in 1973 and 2000.
    Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 4 Dec. 2024
  • But the Dunne character’s binary, psychologically obtuse way of talking about survivors of abuse, essentially arguing that minutely observing their behavior can help adjudicate the truth of their claims, isn’t limited to his perspective as one character.
    Alessa Dominguez, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of obtuse
Adjective
  • Malzahn was hired partly to bring stability to the program, but his decision-making, talent evaluation and personnel moves have been rash and unsound.
    Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2024
  • But under his watch, the Sox were a wildly unsound, undisciplined team that did almost nothing right.
    Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
Definition of unsound
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“Surd.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/surd. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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