Absurdity

  • 11absurdity — noun Milosevic spurned the evidence linking him to countless atrocities, calling the charges a supreme absurdity Syn: preposterousness, ridiculousness, ludicrousness, incongruity, inappropriateness, risibility, idiocy, stupidity, foolishness,… …

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  • 12absurdity — absurd ► ADJECTIVE ▪ completely unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate. DERIVATIVES absurdity noun absurdly adverb. ORIGIN Latin absurdus out of tune , hence irrational …

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  • 13absurdity — noun (plural ties) Date: 1528 1. the quality or state of being absurd ; absurdness 2. something that is absurd …

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  • 14absurdity — /ab serr di tee, zerr /, n., pl. absurdities. 1. the state or quality of being absurd. 2. something absurd. [1425 75; late ME absurdite ( < MF) < LL absurditas. See ABSURD, ITY] * * * …

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  • 15absurdity — absurd …

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  • 16absurdity — Synonyms and related words: absurdness, act of folly, aimlessness, amphigory, anticness, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble babble, bizarreness, bizarrerie, blabber, blather, blunder, bombast, bootlessness, claptrap, craziness, curiousness,&#8230; …

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  • 17absurdity — ab surd·i·ty || dÉ™tɪ n. something ridiculous; nonsense; illogic …

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  • 18absurdity — n. 1. Unreasonableness, irrationality, foolishness, folly, foolery, extravagance, absurdness, nugacity, fatuity, idiocy, drivelling. 2. Absurd thing, drivel, hysteron proteron. See paradox, mare s nest, cart before the horse …

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  • 19absurdity — n 1. ridiculousness, ridiculosity, silliness, foolishness, folly, childishness, tomfoolery, ab surdness; ludicrousness, nonsense, nonsensicalness, nonsensicality, senselessness; amphigory, bosh, poppycock, drivel, gibberish, balderdash, fiddle&#8230; …

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  • 20absurdity — ab·surd·i·ty …

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