(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.
Risible
Definition:
(a.) Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh.
(a.) Exciting laughter; worthy to be laughed at; amusing.
(a.) Used in, or expressing, laughter; as, risible muscles.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is all too easy to show that RT’s coverage is rife with conspiracy theories and risible fabrications: one programme showed fake documents intended to prove that the US was guiding the Ukrainian government to ethnically cleanse Russian speakers from western Ukraine.
(2) "For the most part the rewards for acquiescing to GOC demands are risible: pomp-full dinners and meetings and, for the most pliant, a photo op with one of the Castro brothers.
(3) They are meant to keep the blood of the masses at a risible level, should they be called upon for serviceable violence.
(4) Even when it summons up the courage to state the bleeding obvious, such as the fact that the Quill, a risible block of student housing next to the Shard, is poorly designed, Cabe is ignored.
(5) Mulholland said the idea that Megrahi had acted alone was "risible", and said "justice has only partly been done".
(6) Long before they tucked into the starters there was something whiffy about the relationship between No 10 and News International: why did the prime minister stand by his PR man long after most sentient people had concluded that his denials of involvement in phone-hacking were risible?
(7) Shadow justice secretary, Lord Falconer, described the £10m cash injection as a “risibly small” response to the prisons crisis.
(8) In the face of the scale of the prison crisis the £10m looks risibly small.
(9) The incidental pleasures in Fading Gigolo start with its sweet and slightly risible premise: John Turturro – a florist named Fioravante – has the sexual magic touch for the lonely, libidinous matrons of the One Percent.
(10) The idea of a social mobility drive , contingent as it is on the supposition that parents need convincing that their children should have a better life than they themselves received, may seem risible – but let's suspend disbelief.
(11) He said: “Those elements are risible and in many ways pathetic.
(12) 36 min: Korea have got a foothold in this game now, attacking strongly down either flank - Lee Young-pyo goes on a long meander here - but time and again the final ball is utterly risible.
(13) The following day, Dimbleby was interested to see how Griffin's party had reportedly turned on their leader for giving a risible account of himself.
(14) A source from the Department for Education (DfE) used even stronger language, describing the review as "risible", but a source at the council accused the government of "social worker bashing".
(15) Sky seems to have devoted a whole channel to them.” He leaves no doubt that this is a risible state of affairs.
(16) "Megrahi was a member of the Libyan security service – it is risible to think that he acted alone.
(17) Any idea that they want a life on benefits is risible when all they want is a decent job and a future."
(18) 2.00pm GMT Deadline day, the action so far ... • David Beckham is en route to PSG for a medical • Mario Balotelli has finalised his move to AC Milan • Swansea striker Danny Graham is at Sunderland to discuss personal terms and do a medical • Norwich City have tabled a bid for Celtic striker Gary Hooper • Newcastle owner Mike Ashley arrived at work in a helicopter • Chris Samba has joined QPR for £12.5m and will be paid the risibly small sum of £100,000 per week.
(19) Worse still, it concluded, if Europe failed to surmount its economic crisis the prize would be a “risible memory, or worse, an epitaph for what Europe could have been, should have been.” 11.33am BST Aid donations My colleague Mark Tran, the Guardian's Global Development correspondent, has sent this as a counterpoint to the detractors: Something positive to say about the EU.
(20) The RA’s search for echoes of Rubens even when they are very tenuous becomes quite risible.