Synonym: foolish, impossible, ludicrous, ridiculous, unbelievable. Antonym: rational, reasonable, sensible. Similar words: hurdle, absorb, abstract, abstinence, sure, ensure, for sure, assure. Meaning: [əb'sɜːd] n. a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless. adj. 1. inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense 2. incongruous;inviting ridicule.
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91. These examples demonstrate that it is absurd to say that the Cox Report does not advocate the teaching of grammar.
92. An animal's pelt covered his scalp, its empty legs dangling beside his ears, yet it seemed not at all absurd.
93. It is absurd to disagree about whether we should be fixed to the Deutschmark or not, while behaving as if we were.
94. The teachings of Zen were encapsulated in very short anecdotes, koans, intentionally absurd, with unexpected moral lessons.
95. Indeed it would be quite absurd if companies can not correct any mistake if all interested parties agree.
96. Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible. Albert Einstein
97. It would be absurd and self-defeating to ask poor families to pay the taxes needed to finance their welfare payments!
98. This may seem a little absurd since the buyer in possession may well not be a mercantile agent.
99. But the superficiality became readily apparent in yesterday's absurd statement by the Employment Minister, Michael Forsyth.
100. He fancied himself in love with me, the silly boy, but that was absurd.
101. It would be absurd to make high claims for the international morality of the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
102. When I say his demand for a raise is absurd, I mean absurdly low.
103. To do that would be to become that most absurd and outmoded of beings, a socialist.
104. Was he laughing at the absurd idea of being an old fogey?
105. But she was being absurd, she scarcely knew this man and what was it to her who he was betrothed to?
106. And now this absurd notion of staying at the centre for an extra week, just to be with him!
107. The fact that this singular, somewhat oppressive female was seeking out a religious man seemed absurd.
108. A little idiosyncratic, I think, my appearance - but without going to the slightly absurd lengths of ginger hair and freckles.
109. Besides, it struck him as a little absurd to allude to the matter.
110. The greatest scientists have mixed insight amounting to genius with the most absurd follies at other times.
111. Senator Robert Taft found the idea of loaning military equipment absurd.
112. We allowed them to see us at our most absurd.
113. Their noses and foreheads bump against each other; there is a sudden flurry of limbs, an absurd pantomime struggle.
114. The herd moves into a market, driving up asset prices to absurd levels, then leaves when things look dicey.
115. The classical progression is then to delusions of grandeur with absurd claims of past and present achievements.
116. The absurd idea, he wrote, that a work of art grows from nothing into something, from acorn into oak.sentencedict .com
117. The doctrine of the origin of domestic races from several aboriginal stocks was once carried to absurd extremes.
118. The hon. Gentleman's allegation about my right hon. Friend is absurd and wrong.
119. The suggester of this absurd strategy was a fool.
120. Camus: Rebel against this absurd shit.
More similar words: hurdle, absorb, abstract, abstinence, sure, ensure, for sure, assure, survey, surface, surgeon, surgery, survivor, surround, make sure, survival, exposure, measure up, insurance, surprising, measure up to, surrounding, measurement, surprisingly, surveillance.