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absurdist

[ ab-sur-dist, -zur- ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or dealing with absurdism or the absurd.


noun

  1. an adherent of absurdism, especially a writer whose work is characterized by absurdist ideas.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of absurdist1

First recorded in 1950–55; absurd + -ist

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Example Sentences

Their focus was less explicitly political and more absurdist.

But Dave and his crew kept living the nightmare and probing the depths of depravity through their absurdist, folk-art horror-show.

Blasim is not the kind of post-modern absurdist who trades in forced, inconsequential whimsy.

Thumb to any given page, and the array is stunning and absurdist.

In the 1960s, the great abstractionist reveled in making absurdist pictures of (almost) nothing.

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