absurd
IPA: ʌbsˈɝd
noun
- (obsolete) An absurdity.
- (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.
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.
- (obsolete) Inharmonious; dissonant.
- Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
- Dealing with absurdism.
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Examples of "absurd" in Sentences
- The length of the block was absurd.
- Welcome to the theater of the absurd.
- Enough with the Theatre of the Absurd.
- Is this not the most absurd sophistry
- The redirect is absurd, and insupportable.
- It is going from the ridiculous to the absurd.
- The absurdity of this decision is astonishing.
- The absurdity of the general public is appalling.
- Modernism is equivilant to absurdity and banality.
- That is complete bollocks and outrageously absurd.
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