What is the difference between ridiculous and absurd?
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Deserving of ridicule; foolish; absurd.
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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Absurd is a synonym of ridiculous.
As adjectives the difference between ridiculous and absurd
is that ridiculous is deserving of ridicule; foolish; absurd 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 a noun absurd is
an absurdity.ridiculous
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Alternative forms
* (l) * (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- That hairstyle looks ridiculous .
- It's ridiculous to charge so much for a little souvenir.
Synonyms
* silly * willy nilly * frivolous * goofy * funny * humorous * absurd * odd * surreal * unreasonable * See alsoAntonyms
* straightforward * serious * somber * solemnDerived terms
* ridic * ridiculousnessExternal links
* * English words suffixed with -ousabsurd
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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.}}