absurd
Plural: absurds
Noun
- The quality of being ridiculously unreasonable.
- a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless; --Albert Camus
- "The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth"
- An absurdity.
- The opposition between the human search for meaning in life and the inability to find any; the state or condition in which man exists in an irrational universe and his life has no meaning outside of his existence.
Adjective Satellite
- inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; - Walter Lippman
- "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"
- incongruous;inviting ridicule
- "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"
Adj
- Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly.
- Inharmonious; dissonant.
- Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
- Dealing with absurdism.
Adjective
- Wildly unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate.
Examples
- His challenge of the word ’ZA’ was simply absurd.
- The absurd of the situation was drawing three ’Q’s in a row.
Origin / Etymology
First attested in 1557. From Middle French absurde, from Latin absurdus (“incongruous, dissonant, out of tune”), from ab (“away from, out”) + surdus (“silent, deaf, dull-sounding”). Compare surd.
Synonyms
cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous, the absurd, absurd, cockamamie, farcical, foolish, full of it, incongruous, inconsistent, irrational, skimble-skamble, unreasonable
Scrabble Score: 9
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