absurd
utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false: an absurd explanation.
the quality or condition of existing in a meaningless and irrational world.
Origin of absurd
1synonym study For absurd
Other words for absurd
Opposites for absurd
Other words from absurd
- ab·surd·ly, adverb
- ab·surd·ness, noun
- su·per·ab·surd, adjective
- su·per·ab·surd·ly, adverb
- su·per·ab·surd·ness, noun
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How to use absurd in a sentence
It’s absurd and infuriating that eight months into this pandemic, we’re still exactly where we startedCoronavirus infections are spiking uncontrollably.
Restaurants and the People Who Work in Them Need a Bailout. Let’s Finally Give Them One. | Meghan McCarron | November 19, 2020 | Eater“They’re engaged in an absurd circus right now refusing to accept reality … making it even harder to address the massive health and economic crisis that we are facing,” Pelosi said at a joint news conference with Schumer at the Capitol.
Democrats allege GOP refusal to accept election results is imperiling U.S. coronavirus response as cases, deaths spike | Erica Werner | November 12, 2020 | Washington PostProctorio, he added, also blocked his Internet-protocol address, potentially preventing him from using it for future exams in what he called an “absurd” act of retribution.
Cheating-detection companies made millions during the pandemic. Now students are fighting back. | Drew Harwell | November 12, 2020 | Washington PostHe rushed for 206 yards in the Minnesota Vikings’ 34-20 victory over the Detroit Lions, and in his past two games he has an absurd 478 scrimmage yards and six touchdowns.
What to know for NFL Week 9: Tua Tagovailoa arrives, and Tom Brady’s Buccaneers take a beating | Adam Kilgore | November 9, 2020 | Washington PostIt would be absurd if anything close to that magnitude happened.
The World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party has met a sobering reality: A pandemic | Emily Giambalvo | November 5, 2020 | Washington Post
All this buzz, the continued tabloid fascination with Hurley, is down—absurdly—to that dress.
Happy 20th Birthday, Liz Hurley’s Safety-Pin Dress | Tim Teeman | December 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHughes and Eldridge are not “role models for a future generation of… gay people,” as The Advocate absurdly stated.
The Rise and Fall of Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge, America’s Worst Gay Power Couple | James Kirchick | December 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe problem runs far deeper, to an absurdly narrow legal definition of ‘corruption’ that throws democracy on the trash heap.
Undo Citizens United? We’d Only Scratch the Surface | Jedediah Purdy | November 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAbsurdly, even our battlefield troops must now consider the risk of being sued in UK courts by enemy fighters.
Britain’s PM Cameron And His Awful Assault on Human Rights Court | Nico Hines | October 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTChefchaouen, shut off from the world for centuries, is almost absurdly picturesque.
Every human being behind that absurdly inadequate wall was exposed to constant and equal danger.
The Red Year | Louis TracyIsabel suddenly felt herself and her organdie absurdly out of place in this room with its enchantress atmosphere.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonHer affectation of extreme youth was so absurdly ridiculous, that it made her appear older and uglier than she really was.
The World Before Them | Susanna MoodieNo one, apparently, took the slightest notice of his absurdly wild behaviour.
Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon BlackwoodLeech, the caricaturist,—one of the most absurdly over-rated men of this century,—was at Charterhouse from 1825 to 1831.
The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries | Charles G. Harper
British Dictionary definitions for absurd
/ (əbˈsɜːd) /
at variance with reason; manifestly false
ludicrous; ridiculous
the absurd (sometimes capital) philosophy the conception of the world, esp in Existentialist thought, as neither designed nor predictable but irrational and meaningless
Origin of absurd
1- See also theatre of the absurd
Derived forms of absurd
- absurdity or absurdness, noun
- absurdly, adverb
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