Bullshit vs Absurd - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between bullshit and absurd

is that bullshit is (vulgar|slang) absurd, irrational, or nonsensical most often said of speech, information, or content while absurd is absurd.

As a noun bullshit

is (literally) the faeces of a bull.

As a verb bullshit

is (vulgar|slang) to tell lies, exaggerate; to mislead; to deceive.

As an interjection bullshit

is (vulgar|slang).

bullshit

English

(wikipedia bullshit)

Noun

(-)

(literally) The faeces of a bull.

(vulgar, slang) False or exaggerated statements made to impress and deceive the listener rather than inform; nonsense.

Don't pay any attention to him. He talks a lot of bullshit .

(vulgar, slang) A card game in which the object is to bluff about cards laid down and to determine when one's opponents are bluffing; also known as "BS", "Cheat" or "I Doubt It".

Anyone want to play a few hands of bullshit ?

(vulgar, slang) An object of frustration and/or disgust, often caused by a perceived deception.

That's total bullshit ! I called your office and they said you never came in!

Synonyms

* BS * bull * bulldada * bull puckey * bushwah * (card game) cheat, I doubt it

Derived terms

* bullshido * bullshitter * bullshitty * bullshoot * bullshot

Adjective

(en adjective)

(vulgar, slang) Absurd, irrational, or nonsensical. Most often said of speech, information, or content.

That's the most bullshit excuse I've ever heard.

Verb

(vulgar, slang) To tell lies, exaggerate; to mislead; to deceive.

I think you're bullshitting . Let’s just call your office and see if you even came in.

You’re bullshitting me. I called your office and you never even came in.

He caught my attention with irrelevant asides that didn’t quite make sense, but sounded very erudite if you didn’t think about it too much. In other words, I noticed that he was bullshitting . http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002815.php

(vulgar, slang) To have casual conversation with no real point.

I will probably just go and bullshit with Joe for awhile.

(vulgar, slang) To come up with on the spot, to improvise poorly.

We just went on stage and bullshitted the whole concert because we didn't know any songs.

Interjection

(vulgar, slang)

absurd

English

Adjective

(en-adj)

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.

* 1591 , (William Shakespeare), , V-iv

This proffer is absurd and reasonless.

* ca. 1710 , (Alexander Pope)

This phrase absurd to call a villain great

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, title= 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.}}

(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.

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 also

Derived terms

* absurdly, absurdity * Absurdistan

Noun

(en noun) (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.

Usage notes

* (philosophy) Absurd is sometimes preceded by the word the .

Derived terms

* theatre of the absurd

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