absurd

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ab·surd /əbˈsɜːd, -ˈzɜːd $ -ɜːrd/ adjectiveadj

1 STUPID/NOT SENSIBLEcompletely stupid or unreasonable 荒谬的，荒唐的，愚蠢的 SYN ridiculous

quite/slightly/completely etc absurd

It seems quite absurd to expect anyone to drive for 3 hours just for a 20-minute meeting.

让人开3小时的车只为了去参加一个20分钟的会议，这好像很荒唐吧。

It seems an absurd idea.

这似乎是个荒唐的想法。

► see thesaurus at stupid

2 the absurd something that is completely stupid and unreasonable 荒诞，悖理

Some of the stories he tells verge on the absurd.

他讲的有些故事近乎荒诞。

—absurdity noun [countableC, uncountableU]

Duncan laughed at the absurdity of the situation.

邓肯嘲笑那荒唐的局面。

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absurd• The idea seemed absurd.• Some gigs stand out as being particularly absurd.• That kind of thinking is absurd.• The fact that this singular, somewhat oppressive female was seeking out a religious man seemed absurd.• It would be absurd if it were not so unlikely.• How simple that concept seems now, but how inhuman, how futuristic, how absurd it sounded to me then.• a TV program with an absurd plot• I had seen shyness stiffen her into a quite absurd primness.• This may seem a little absurd since the buyer in possession may well not be a mercantile agent.

quite/slightly/completely etc absurd• In any case the idea of such a thing between me and the lieutenant is quite absurd.• It sounds quite absurd but the other day I walked up the footpath from the road just to see if it was.• The Victoria County History mentions a quite absurd figure of £250,000.• Indeed it would be quite absurd if companies can not correct any mistake if all interested parties agree.• A little idiosyncratic, I think, my appearance - but without going to the slightly absurd lengths of ginger hair and freckles.• And once you've had one treble gin it seems slightly absurd not to have another.• I had seen shyness stiffen her into a quite absurd primness.• He'd had more time to think, to get used to this slightly absurd rapture.

Absurdn noun

nthe Absurd (also the Theatre of the Absurd) a style of play for the theatre that was developed in the 1950s by writers such as Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco, whose work expresses the belief that there is no God, and that human existence has no meaning or purpose. These plays are very different from traditional theatre. The characters do not communicate effectively with each other, and often their words do not make sense. Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot is the best-known example of this type of theatre.

—Absurdist adjectiveadj

Origin absurd

(1500-1600) French absurde, from Latin absurdus, from ab- “away” + surdus “deaf, stupid”

ab·surd adjectiveadjAbsurdn noun

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