Pronunciation Adjective
absurd (comparative absurder, superlative absurdest)
- 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. [First attested in the mid 16th century.]
- 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I, V-iv
- This proffer is absurd and reasonless.
- ca. 1710, Alexander Pope
- This phrase absurd to call a villain great
- 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I, V-iv
- (obsolete) Inharmonious; dissonant. [Attested only in the early 17th century.]
- Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
Adults have condemned them to live in what must seem like an absurd universe. - Joseph Featherstone
- Dealing with absurdism.
- foolish, irrational, ridiculous, preposterous, inconsistent, incongruous, ludicrous
- See also Thesaurus:absurd
absurd (plural absurds)
- (obsolete) An absurdity. [Attested from the early 17th century until the mid 17th century.]
- (philosophy, often preceded by the) 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. [First attested in English in the early 20th century and first used in the mid-19th century in Danish by Søren Kierkegaard]
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