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absurd
/əbˈsɚd/
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What does absurd mean?
adjective
- 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.
- Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
- Dealing with absurdism.
More meanings (3)
noun
- 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.
- (obsolete) An absurdity.
adjective
- (obsolete) Inharmonious; dissonant.
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IPA pronunciation
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He seemed suddenly to realise his unhappiness, and though he knew he was making himself still more absurd, he began to cry.
His robes transformed me into such an absurd caricature of a preacher that it was quite impossible for me to wear them.
More book examples (3)
He was eminently "sound," and denounced the Copernican theory in his lectures as "absurd, and unfit to be introduced into the schools."
No greater exemplification of it could be given, than the wise and religious rules of the absurd and blasphemous trial by battle.
The most common opinion is the most absurd, which derives this word from pons, and assigns the priests the title of bridge-makers.