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Russian
Etymology
From не- (ne-) + ле́пый (lépyj).
Pronunciation
Adjective
неле́пый • (nelépyj) (adverb неле́по, abstract noun неле́пость)
- absurd, odd, ridiculous
1872, Фёдор Достоевский, “Часть 3. Глава 2. Окончание праздника”, in Бесы; English translation from Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, transl., Demons, 1994:Вся э́та ночь с свои́ми почти́ неле́пыми собы́тиями и с стра́шною «развя́зкой» нау́тро мере́щится мне до сих пор как безобра́зный, кошма́рный сон и составля́ет — для меня́ по кра́йней ме́ре — са́мую тяжё́лую часть мое́й хро́ники.- Vsja éta nočʹ s svoími počtí nelépymi sobýtijami i s strášnoju «razvjázkoj» naútro meréščitsja mne do six por kak bezobráznyj, košmárnyj son i sostavljájet — dlja menjá po krájnej mére — sámuju tjažóluju častʹ mojéj xróniki.
- The whole of that night, with its almost absurd events and ghastly "denouement" in the morning, comes back to me even now as a hideous, nightmarish dream, and constitutes—for me at least—the most difficult part of my chronicle.
Declension
Declension of неле́пый (short class a)
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