absurd
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absurd
- /əbˈsɜːd/ UK
- /əbˈzɜːd/ UK
- /əbˈsɚd/ Canada, US
- /əbˈzɚd/ Canada, US
- /æbˈsɚd/ Canada, US
- /æbˈzɚd/ Canada, US
Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)d
Where it comes from
First attested in 1557. From Middle French absurde, from Latin absurdus (“incongruous, dissonant, out of tune”), from ab (“away from, out”) + surdus (“silent, deaf, dull-sounding”). Compare surd.
adjective absurder · more absurd · absurdest · most absurd
- 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. This proffer is absurd and reasonless.
- Inharmonious; dissonant.
- 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.
- Dealing with absurdism.
Similar: absurd, Laputan, cockamamie, cockeyed, farcical, foolish, full of it, irrational, inconsistent, incongruous, jabberwocky, laughable
noun absurds
- An absurdity.
- 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.
