Usually means: Ridiculously unreasonable, illogical, or inappropriate.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word absurd:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. absurd, the absurd: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. absurd: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. absurd: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. absurd, the absurd: Collins English Dictionary
  5. absurd, the absurd: Vocabulary.com
  6. Absurd, absurd: Wordnik
  7. absurd, the absurd: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. absurd: Wiktionary
  9. absurd: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. absurd: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. absurd: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Absurd, absurd, the absurd: Dictionary.com
  13. absurd: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Absurd (Fluke song), Absurd (band), Absurd (film), Absurd: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Absurd: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. absurd: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. absurd: Rhymezone
  18. absurd, absurd, absurd: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. absurd: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. absurd, the absurd: Free Dictionary
  21. absurd: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. absurd, the absurd: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. absurd: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. absurd, the absurd: Mnemonic Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. absurd: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Absurd, absurd: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ABSURD: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. absurd: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See absurdly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; silly.
adjective:  (obsolete) Inharmonious; dissonant.
adjective:  Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
adjective:  Dealing with absurdism.
noun:  (obsolete) An absurdity.
noun:  (philosophy, often preceded by the) The opposition between the human search for meaning in life and the inability to find any; the state or condition in which man exists in an irrational universe and his life has no meaning outside of his existence.

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