Peculiar vs Absurd - What's the difference?
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Out of the ordinary; odd; curious; unusual.
* 1800 , , Volume 41,
* 2001 , Jack Schaefer, Wendell Minor, Shane ,
* 2008', Stephen Arnott, '''''Peculiar Proverbs: Weird Words of Wisdom from Around the World .
Common or usual for a certain place or circumstance; specific or particular.
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* 1895 , , XX: Anomalous Islands: Celebes,
(dated) One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not shared or possessed by others.
* Bible, Titus ii. 14
* Hooker
(dated) Particular; individual; special; appropriate.
* Milton
* Dryden
That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.
* South
(UK, canon law) A particular parish or church which is exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary.
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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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* ca. 1710 , (Alexander Pope)
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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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As adjectives the difference between peculiar and absurd
is that peculiar is out of the ordinary; odd; curious; unusual while absurd is 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.As nouns the difference between peculiar and absurd
is that peculiar is that which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic while absurd is an absurdity.peculiar
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The sky had a peculiar appearance before the storm.
- It would be rather peculiar to see a kangaroo hopping down a city street.
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- I saw nothing peculiar in his conduct, and thought that his arrangement of the ballot box was perfect.
- "Wasn't it peculiar ," I heard mother say, "How he wouldn't talk about himself?"
- "Peculiar ?" said father. "Well, yes, in a way."
- "Everything about him is peculiar ." Mother sounded as if she was stirred up and interested. "I never saw a man quite like him before."
- Kangaroos are peculiar to Australia.
- This philosopher found his ideas especially in all that is practical,[29] that is, which rests upon freedom, which in its turn ranks under cognitions that are the peculiar product of reason.
- But of late years extensive Tertiary deposits of Miocene age have been discovered, showing that it is not a mere congeries of volcanoes; it [Iceland] is connected with the British Islands and with Greenland by seas less than 500 fathoms deep; and it possesses a few mammalia, one of which is peculiar', and at least three ' peculiar species of birds.
- And purify unto himself a peculiar people.
- hymns that Christianity hath peculiar unto itself
- while each peculiar power forgoes his wonted seat
- My fate is Juno's most peculiar care.
Synonyms
* (out of the ordinary) strange, uncommon, unusual * (common or usual in a particular place or circumstance) specificAntonyms
* (out of the ordinary) common, usual * (common or usual in a particular place or circumstance) common, general, universalDerived terms
* peculiarity * peculiarly * peculiarnessSee also
* (wikipedia "peculiar")Noun
(en noun)- Revenge is the peculiar of Heaven.
References
absurd
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- This proffer is absurd and reasonless.
- This phrase absurd to call a villain great
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