Absurd
Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and fiatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream.
An absurdity.
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Absurd Quotations
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.
Plato
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Albert Camus
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Soren Kierkegaard
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.
Evelyn Waugh
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
Pope John Paul II
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Absurd Translations
absurd in Afrikaans is sinneloos
absurd in Dutch is dwaas, ongerijmd, onzinnig, absurd
absurd in French is absurde
absurd in German is albern, absurde
absurd in Italian is assurdo
absurd in Latin is futurus
absurd in Spanish is absurdo
absurd in Swedish is orimlig, absurd
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