'absurd' definitions:
Definition of 'absurd'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense; "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman
adjective
Incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous" [syn: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous]
noun
A situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless; "The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth"-- Albert Camus [syn: absurd, the absurd]
Synonyms of 'absurd'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a bit thick,
- a bit thin,
- abnormal,
- amusing,
- anomalous,
- asinine,
- balmy,
- barred,
- beyond belief,
- bizarre,
- childish,
- closed-out,
- cockamamie,
- comic,
- contrary to reason,
- crazy,
- curious,
- daft,
- disproportionate,
- doubtable,
- doubtful,
- droll,
- dubious,
- dubitable,
- eccentric,
- empty,
- excluded,
- extravagant,
- fantastic,
- farcical,
- fatuitous,
- fatuous,
- foolish,
- freaked out,
- freaky,
- funny,
- futile,
- grotesque,
- hard of belief,
- hard to believe,
- harebrained,
- high-flown,
- hilarious,
- hollow,
- hopeless,
- humorous,
- idiotic,
- idle,
- illogical,
- imbecile,
- imbecilic,
- implausible,
- impossible,
- inane,
- incoherent,
- incommensurable,
- incommensurate,
- incompatible,
- inconceivable,
- incongruous,
- inconsequent,
- inconsistent,
- inconsonant,
- incredible,
- insane,
- irrational,
- irreconcilable,
- kooky,
- laughable,
- logically impossible,
- loony,
- ludicrous,
- mad,
- meaningless,
- monstrous,
- moronic,
- nonsensical,
- not deserving belief,
- not possible,
- nuts,
- nutty,
- odd,
- oddball,
- off,
- off the wall,
- open to doubt,
- open to suspicion,
- out,
- out of proportion,
- outlandish,
- outrageous,
- outre,
- oxymoronic,
- paradoxical,
- passing belief,
- passing strange,
- peculiar,
- Pickwickian,
- poppycockish,
- potty,
- preposterous,
- priceless,
- problematic,
- prohibited,
- quaint,
- queer,
- questionable,
- quizzical,
- rich,
- ridiculous,
- risible,
- rubbishy,
- ruled-out,
- screaming,
- self-contradictory,
- senseless,
- silly,
- simple,
- singular,
- skimble-skamble,
- staggering belief,
- strange,
- stupid,
- suspect,
- suspicious,
- tall,
- thick,
- thin,
- trashy,
- twaddling,
- twaddly,
- unbelievable,
- unconvincing,
- unearthly,
- ungodly,
- unimaginable,
- unreasonable,
- unsound,
- unthinkable,
- unworthy of belief,
- vain,
- wacky,
- weird,
- whimsical,
- wild,
- witty,
- wondrous strange