Absurd vs Facetious - What's the difference?
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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.
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, title= (obsolete) Inharmonious; dissonant.
Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
* (rfdate) Adults have condemned them to live in what must seem like an absurd universe. - Joseph Featherstone
Dealing with absurdism.
(obsolete) An absurdity.
(philosophy) 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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Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.
Pleasantly humorous, jocular.
Absurd is a related term of facetious.
As adjectives the difference between absurd and facetious
is that absurd is absurd while facetious is treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour; flippant.absurd
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Adjective
(en-adj)- This proffer is absurd and reasonless.
- This phrase absurd to call a villain great
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd , but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.}}
Usage notes
* More and most absurd are the preferred or more common form of the comparable, as opposed to absurder and absurdest. * Among the synonyms: ** Irrational is the weakest, denoting that which is plainly inconsistent with the dictates of sound reason; as, an irrational course of life. ** Foolish rises higher, and implies either a perversion of that faculty, or an absolute weakness or fatuity of mind; as, foolish enterprises. ** Absurd rises still higher, denoting that which is plainly opposed to received notions of propriety and truth; as, an absurd man, project, opinion, story, argument, etc. ** Preposterous rises still higher, and supposes an absolute inversion'' in the order of things; or, in plain terms, a "putting of the cart before the horse;" as, a ''preposterous'' suggestion, ''preposterous'' conduct, a ''preposterous regulation or law.Synonyms
* foolish, irrational, ridiculous, preposterous, inconsistent, incongruous, ludicrous * See alsoDerived terms
* absurdly, absurdity * AbsurdistanNoun
(en noun) (Absurdism)Usage notes
* (philosophy) Absurd is sometimes preceded by the word the .Derived terms
* theatre of the absurdReferences
facetious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Robbie's joke about Heather's picture was just him being facetious .