absurd

(s) inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense
- "the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman
(s) incongruous;inviting ridicule
- the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework
- that's a cockeyed idea
- ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer
- a contribution so small as to be laughable
- it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion
- a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history
- her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous
derisory, laughable, nonsensical, preposterous, cockeyed, idiotic, ludicrous, ridiculous,

(n) a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless
- "The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth"--Albert Camus
the absurd,

the absurd derisory laughable nonsensical preposterous cockeyed idiotic ludicrous ridiculous

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