absurd
adjective
- not plausible
noun
No English definition recorded for this entry.
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Pronunciation: /əbˈsɜːd/ / /əbˈzɜːd/ / /æbˈsɚd/
adj
Etymology: 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.
- 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.”
“'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great”
- 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.
noun
Etymology: 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.
- 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.