Another word for absurd
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Adjective
So senseless as to be laughable
- (Slang) Erratic, eccentric, or irrational; zany
- Eccentric or irrational:
- Crazy; silly:
- (Slang) Foolish; silly:
- Characterized or moving by jerks; making sudden starts and stops or spasmodic movements
- Characterized by jerks or jerking:
- Mentally slow or confused; lethargic or stupid
- Stupid; doltish:
- Silly, ridiculous, etc.
- Lacking common sense
- Not sensible; foolish.
- (Slang) Foolish, eccentric, or crazy
- Pleasantly warm and breezy
- Having the qualities of balm; soothing, fragrant, etc.
- (Chiefly Brit., Slang) Crazy or foolish
- Confused; befuddled
- Befuddled or disoriented:
- Crazy or eccentric:
- (Of a person) insane
- Mentally deranged; crazy.
- Crazy; demented
- Intoxicated; drunk.
- (Slang) Tilted to one side; crooked; awry
- Silly; ridiculous; foolish
- Comical in an extravagantly ludicrous or slapstick manner
- Unusual and bizarre in a funny, comical way; outlandish; clownish
- Foolish or crazy
- Weird; mysterious
- Ridiculous, ludicrous, or outrageous.
- Unnaturally strange and frightening.
- Extremely foolish or stupid.
- Foolish, stupid, or silly
- Lacking judgment, realism, or firmness.
- Stupid or foolish
- Lacking seriousness or responsibleness; frivolous:
- Having or exhibiting a lack of good judgment or common sense; foolish.
- Having or showing little sense, judgment, or sobriety; foolish, stupid, absurd, ludicrous, irrational, etc.
- (Obs.) With the first last and the last first; inverted
- So contrary to nature, reason, or common sense as to be laughable; absurd; ridiculous
- Lacking intelligible meaning:
- Without sense; unmeaning; absurd; foolish; irrational; preposterous.
- Unintelligible, foolish, silly, absurd, etc.
- Showing foolishness or stupidity.
- Exhibiting mild intellectual disability. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
- Temporarily or apparently deranged by violent sensations, emotions, or ideas:
- (Slang) Excellent; wonderful:
- Mentally ill; insane
- Of or for people who are mentally deranged.
- Of or for insane persons
- Suffering from lunacy; insane
- Intended for use by such persons:
- Immoderate; wild:
- Characteristic of or associated with persons who are mentally deranged:
- Showing foolishness or stupidity.
- Of, having the nature of, or characteristic of an idiot; very foolish or stupid
- Exhibiting profound mental retardation. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
- Having or showing little sense; reckless, flighty, giddy, rash, etc.
- Embarrassed; abashed:
- Lacking or exhibiting a lack of good sense or judgment; silly:
- Capable of arousing laughter; absurd or ridiculous:
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Another word for absurd
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- Silly and ridiculous apply to whatever excites amusement or contempt by reason of extreme foolishness, silly often indicating an utterly nonsensical quality
- Foolish describes that which shows lack of good judgment or of common sense don't take foolish chances
- Preposterous is used to describe anything flagrantly absurd or ludicrous
- Ludicrous is applied to something that provokes laughter or scorn because of incongruity or exaggeration a ludicrous facial expression, a ludicrous suggestion
- Absurd means laughably inconsistent with what is judged as true or reasonable an absurd conclusion
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