Proposterous vs Absurd - What's the difference?
proposterous | absurd |
Proposterous has no English definition.
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
* 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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Proposterous is likely misspelled.
Proposterous has no English definition.
As an adjective 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 a noun absurd is
an absurdity.proposterous
Not English
Proposterous has no English definition. It may be misspelled.English words similar to 'proposterous':
preposterous, purposeless, professions, prepositions, propositions, pervicacious, professionals, purifications, provisionals, perfections, provocations, proficiencies, pervasiveness, proficients, perfectness, profuseness, propagandizes, prophesiers, prepackages, propagandists, prepossesses, prophesizes, provokingness, perovskites, proboscises, proboscides, previousness, purposiveness, prophecises, prophecizes, prefaceless, parapoxvirus, propagandisms, perifusions, prebusiness, prepossessors, professoriats, professours, perofskites, perviousness, prebookings, profectitious, proboscidians, provections, perpessions, professorates, prepositors, pervestigates, purificators, provisionings, prefigurates, praepostors, prophesyings, prophecyings, proboscideans, previsualizes, parapohysisabsurd
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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.}}