unreasonable; nonsensical; ridiculous, preposterous; silly, foolish
condition in which people exist in a nonsensical and irrational world with no meaning nor purpose, quality existing in an irrational and meaningless universe
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Absurd Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
An absurdity.
An absurdity.
(a.)
Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and fiatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutContrary to reason or propriety; obviously and fiatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream.
absurd
absumption \ab*sump"tion\ (#; 215), n. [l. absumptio. see absume.] act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. [obs.] t. browne.
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theater of the absurd
Inconsistent with reason or common sense.
Adjective
1. inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman
(synonym) unreasonable
(similar) illogical, unlogical
2. completely devoid of wisdom or good sense; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"
(synonym) cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous
(similar) foolish
Absurd Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Absurd or The Absurd may refer to:
- Absurdity, general and technical usage - associated with extremely poor reasoning, the ridiculous, or nonsense.
- Absurdism, a philosophy born of existentialism, regarding the philosophical concept of "the Absurd," the clash between the human tendency to seek some inherent meaning in the universe and the human impossibility of finding meaning
- Absurd or surreal humour
- Absurdist fiction
- Absurd (band), a German metal band
- The Absurd (band), a German band formed in 1984
- Absurd (Fluke song)
- Theatre of the Absurd, an art form utilizing the philosophy of Absurdism
- Absurd, a term used in logic to describe a contradiction
- Reductio ad absurdum, a type of logical argument
- Absurd (film), an Italian film
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