absurd

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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  cockeyed , derisory , idiotic , laughable , ludicrous , nonsensical , preposterous , ridiculous , the absurd