- 1completely ridiculous; not logical and sensible synonym ridiculous That uniform makes the guards look absurd. Of course it's not true, what an absurd idea. Oxford Collocations Dictionary verbsbe, look, seem, … adverbabsolutely, completely, quite, … phrasesa sense of the absurd See full entry
- 2the absurd noun [singular] things that are or that seem to be absurd He has a good sense of the absurd. Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin absurdus ‘out of tune’, hence ‘irrational’; related to surdus ‘deaf, dull’.Extra examples She found the whole concept faintly absurd. Such beliefs are patently absurd. Don’t be absurd! Why would he want to do a thing like that? I must say I felt faintly absurd. It’s absurd to suggest that I’m being unprofessional. The uniform makes the guards look absurd. What an absurd idea!
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