absurd. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

absurd

SYLLABICATION:	ab·surd
PRONUNCIATION:	b-sûrd, -zûrd
ADJECTIVE:	1. Ridiculously incongruous or unreasonable. See synonyms at foolish. 2. Of, relating to, or manifesting the view that there is no order or value in human life or in the universe. 3. Of or relating to absurdism or the absurd.
NOUN:	The condition or state in which humans exist in a meaningless, irrational universe wherein people's lives have no purpose or meaning. Used chiefly with the.
ETYMOLOGY:	Latin absurdus, out of tune, absurd : ab-, intensive pref.; see ab–¹ + surdus, deaf, muffled.
OTHER FORMS:	ab·surdi·ty (-sûrd-t, -zûr-) , ab·surdness —NOUN ab·surdly —ADVERB


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