the absurd

1. 1.

   a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless

   “The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth”

   Synonymsabsurd

   Broadersituation

Questions about the absurd

What does the absurd mean?

the absurd means "a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless".

What is another word for the absurd?

Close synonyms include absurd. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is the absurd a common word?

the absurd is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.