Definition of Absurd

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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

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

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison

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

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.
Lord Byron

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

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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