Absurd

Quick meaning: Absurd is an adjective meaning Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.

Meaning

Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.

More Meanings

1. Dealing with absurdism.
2. 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.
3. (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.
4. (obsolete) Inharmonious; dissonant.
5. (obsolete) An absurdity.

Example Sentences

This proffer is absurd and reasonless.

'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great

I know it sounds absurd / But please, tell me who I am

Adults have condemned them to live in what must seem like an absurd universe.

Word Forms

• absurder
• absurdest
• absurds

Synonyms for absurd

Depending on context, synonyms include cockamamie, cockeyed, farcical, foolish, irrational, inconsistent.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include preposterous, incongruous, illogical, ridiculous, derisory, ludicrous.

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