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How to pronounce “absurd”
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Pronunciation guide for absurd
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- Practice the English pronunciation of absurd with real speech in context.
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- Tech Humanism: The Meaningful Future
Of course, you didn't, because it's absurd.
- Definition summary
- Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly. [from mid-16th c.][3]
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How to pronounce absurd
Tech Humanism: The Meaningful Future
Of course, you didn't, because it's absurd.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “absurd”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly. [from mid-16th c.][3]
- (obsolete) Inharmonious; dissonant. [only early 17th c.][3]
- Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
- Dealing with absurdism.
- [Noun]
- (obsolete) An absurdity. [early 17th–mid 17th c.][3]
- (philosophy, often preceded by the) The opposition between the human search for meaning in life and the inability to find any; the state or condition in which man exists in an irrational universe and his life has no meaning outside of his existence. [from early 20th century in English; from mid-19th century in Danish by Kierkegaard][3][4]
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