- extremely silly; not logical and sensible synonym ridiculous
- That uniform makes the guards look absurd.
- Of course it's not true, what an absurd idea.
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.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- look
- seem
- …
- absolutely
- completely
- quite
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- a sense of the absurd
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- the absurdnoun [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’.
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