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Found 4 items, similar to absurd.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: absurd menggelikan
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: absurd absur, tidak masuk akal
English → English (WordNet) Definition: absurd absurd adj 1: 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 [syn: unreasonable] 2: completely devoid of wisdom or good sense; “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” [syn: cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Absurd Absurd \Ab*surd"\ ([a^]b*s[^u]rd"), a. [L. absurdus harsh-sounding; ab + (prob) a derivative fr. a root svar to sound; not connected with surd: cf. F. absurde. See Syringe.] Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly 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. [1913 Webster] This proffer is absurd and reasonless. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 'This phrase absurd to call a villain great. --Pope. --p. 9 [1913 Webster] Syn: Foolish; irrational; ridiculous; preposterous; inconsistent; incongruous. Usage: Absurd, Irrational, Foolish, Preposterous. Of these terms, irrational is the weakest, denoting that which is plainly inconsistent with the dictates of sound reason; as, an irrational course of life. Foolish rises higher, and implies either a perversion of that faculty, or an absolute weakness or fatuity of mind; as, foolish enterprises. Absurd rises still higher, denoting that which is plainly opposed to received notions of propriety and truth; as, an absurd man, project, opinion, story, argument, etc. Preposterous rises still higher, and supposes an absolute inversion in the order of things; or, in plain terms, a “putting of the cart before the horse;” as, a preposterous suggestion, preposterous conduct, a preposterous regulation or law. [1913 Webster] Absurd \Ab*surd"\ ([a^]b*s[^u]rd"), n. An absurdity. [Obs.] --Pope. [1913 Webster]
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: absurd menggelikan
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: absurd absur, tidak masuk akal
English → English (WordNet) Definition: absurd absurd adj 1: 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 [syn: unreasonable] 2: completely devoid of wisdom or good sense; “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” [syn: cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Absurd Absurd \Ab*surd"\ ([a^]b*s[^u]rd"), a. [L. absurdus harsh-sounding; ab + (prob) a derivative fr. a root svar to sound; not connected with surd: cf. F. absurde. See Syringe.] Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly 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. [1913 Webster] This proffer is absurd and reasonless. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 'This phrase absurd to call a villain great. --Pope. --p. 9 [1913 Webster] Syn: Foolish; irrational; ridiculous; preposterous; inconsistent; incongruous. Usage: Absurd, Irrational, Foolish, Preposterous. Of these terms, irrational is the weakest, denoting that which is plainly inconsistent with the dictates of sound reason; as, an irrational course of life. Foolish rises higher, and implies either a perversion of that faculty, or an absolute weakness or fatuity of mind; as, foolish enterprises. Absurd rises still higher, denoting that which is plainly opposed to received notions of propriety and truth; as, an absurd man, project, opinion, story, argument, etc. Preposterous rises still higher, and supposes an absolute inversion in the order of things; or, in plain terms, a “putting of the cart before the horse;” as, a preposterous suggestion, preposterous conduct, a preposterous regulation or law. [1913 Webster] Absurd \Ab*surd"\ ([a^]b*s[^u]rd"), n. An absurdity. [Obs.] --Pope. [1913 Webster]
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