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absurd
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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
  • 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
Noun
  • a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless
    • The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth--Albert Camus
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