EGAVE

absurd

About 7.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. 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. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. adjective Inharmonious; dissonant.
  3. adjective Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
  4. adjective Dealing with absurdism.
  5. noun An absurdity.
  6. noun 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.

Similar words

preposterous incongruous illogical ridiculous derisory ludicrous foolish unlogical unreasonable nonsensical

Often followed by

to and as in that than for or it

Word family

absurder absurdest absurdly absurdness absurdnesses absurds

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