(a.) 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.
(n.) An absurdity.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Steven Brounstein, a lawyer for one of the officers, said: 'For the DA to be equating this case to a drive-by shooting is absurd.
(2) Historically, what made SNL’s campaign coverage so necessary was its ability to highlight the subtle absurdities of the election and exaggerate the ridiculous.
(3) In any halfway-awake western nation, and, to be frank, in many reaches of British national life, this would be considered an amateurish absurdity, a guarantee of eventual failure.
(4) But the same court also just refused to hear an appeal of a Minnesota woman who's been ordered to pay more than $220,000 for downloading two-dozen songs – a testament to Congress' gift to Hollywood and its allies in the form of absurdly stiff penalties for minor infringement.
(5) I think the heart of good comedy really lives in truth and reacting to the absurdities, hypocrisies, abuses of power in the world.” Late night television is a no longer a glass of warm milk before bed, it’s a lunch buffet And as TV viewership declines and internet virality becomes as important as real-time eyeballs, cable networks might find that topical comedy is a smart, cost-effective way to grab cross-platform attention.
(6) It might seem absurd, but she also fretted about the horrendous poll tax bills received by people she knew, people she knew couldn't pay.
(7) He would have seen the absurdity in a chancellor admitting that his sums are so badly out that Britain will borrow more than double this year than the £37bn he originally promised – and claiming that as a triumph.
(8) The idea that opposition to the renewal of Trident is an extreme policy confined to the British left is absurd.
(9) SC, Manchester Spark Energy, one of Britain's smaller electricity suppliers, failed to notice that your bill was absurd.
(10) British officials said it was absurd that at one point Merkel seemed to want to remove most references to the eurozone crisis from the communique.
(11) Harry Kane, reminding everyone how absurd it was to think his confidence might be broken, may just have to accept this will not be a night that is remembered for his goal.
(12) Karl Habsburg-Lothringen supported his cousin's action: "The Habsburg law is absurd, there's nothing else to be said about it.
(13) In fact, the body of evidence about how much it matters is mushrooming, so that it seems almost absurd to anyone who knows anything about children's development that we still think that a baby's physical health at the birth is all that matters.
(14) Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling breached all those, absurdly calling objectors 'job snobs'.
(15) Last month, along with Slovenia, Croatia and non-EU members Serbia and Macedonia, Austria – which has rejected Brussels’ criticism of its policy as “absurd” – imposed strict new restrictions, including a daily cap on the number of asylum seekers and migrants they would allow to enter their territory.
(16) Absurdly, the shops lack local staples – sugar, milk, flour – but are well stocked with subsidised imports such as single-malt whisky and Italian panettone.
(17) The idea that human breastmilk may not be good enough for human babies is clearly absurd.
(18) The woman snaps out of bed and opens her eyes, absurdly conscious and alive, wonderfully lucid.
(19) We are talking here about the absurd.” Ah, the absurd.
(20) Each sentence seems more absurd than the last until you are finally and irredeemably overwhelmed by its relentless meaningful meaninglessness.
Farcical
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See Farcy, n.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile, Athletic Bilbao ’s Raúl García headed the only goal of a near-farcical first leg of their all-Spanish tie with Gary Neville’s Valencia .
(2) Any application for special mission status is considered on its overall merits and may be accepted or refused on legal or policy grounds.” Lord Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions who is acting for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood as well as the FJP, said: “There is strong evidence [Sisi] is guilty of serious and very public crimes, including the mass shooting of demonstrators, forced disappearances, kidnappings, torture, the organisation of farcical trials involving mass sentences of death.
(3) Daniel Sturridge back in England shirt for the first time in 573 days Read more The farcical nature of the situation was reinforced when the plane was able to touch down and, once again, it was held – this time on the outskirts of the airport while a parking spot was found.
(4) Formula One’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix got under way on Sunday on a farcical note with only 14 cars left in the race after the opening lap.
(5) I’ve written before about the farcical quality of DWP medical assessments .
(6) Their campaign started farcically and ended gloriously.
(7) It is ridiculous and farcical to try to blame Labour when the Tories agreed to the accession treaties.
(8) This person was one of the main ring leaders in a network of hostile institutions that were operating in recent years under the supervision of foreign government’s spying and media services.” Richard Ratcliffe, who is in the UK and needs a visa to travel to Iran , said: “If these are indeed the allegations, this is of course farcical.
(9) Australia's Matthew Neuhaus sent a diplomatic cable to Canberra titled "A farcical election", and called for a rerun.
(10) The sight of stuffy, bespectacled greying men berating films aimed primarily at teenage girls is as farcical as it is depressing.
(11) It amounts to a farcical repeat of Thatcherite economic history.
(12) Kerslake, who found himself in an impossible position, tried to steer the conversation away from Mackay and from what has been another farcical week at Cardiff.
(13) In one farcical local situation this week, a new-build primary school failed to open because the DfE didn't find a sponsor in time.
(14) The idea that Corbyn must only include clones and drones in the shadow cabinet is farcical.
(15) Talk of having [switchover] in 2015 is just farcical."
(16) I’ve come in and looked at the plan, looked at the calibre of players we’re targeting and said ‘wow’.” It was the first time the former England coach had spoken to the majority of the north-east media since the farcical press conference which marked his arrival at St James’ Park last month when, at the insistence of the club, McClaren spoke to only one national newspaper, the Daily Mirror, which has been discussing a so-called “preferred media partnership” arrangement with Newcastle.
(17) Piano is far more interested in examining how to "refertilise" the suburbs than attending every vote or immersing himself in Italy's fraught and frequently farcical party political scene.
(18) The charges against them are as salacious as they are farcical,” Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont said late last month .
(19) The hope must be that public pressure from the voters whose choices created these farcical situations may help to resolve them as they become more and more impatient with their dithering political leaders.
(20) Bernard Tomic savages Tennis Australia after Davis Cup backflip Read more Bernard Tomic’s public falling out with Tennis Australia has reached a new, farcical low, with the governing body forced into issuing an apology after an email was sent saying Tomic was to play in the upcoming “Hall of Shame Tennis Championships”.