absurdist
/əbˈsəːdɪst
/adjective
1Intentionally ridiculous or bizarre; surreal: a delightful piece of absurdist nonsense...
- Regrettably, the overall effect of the piece was tame—gently absurdist, charming, amusing.
- The secret to <i>Green Acres</i>' enduring appeal is its absurdist view of the world.
- The outlandish titles appear to contain apocalyptic messages, albeit relayed with absurdist humor.
2Relating to or supporting the belief that human beings exist in a purposeless, chaotic universe.His films are often absurdist and violent, intrinsically drawing on his early life but never dealing directly with it....
- Taking to an absurdist extreme the notion that the unique qualities of a medium should dictate its form, he produces three-dimensional objects composed solely of paint.
- It is an absurdist drama played out against an almost constructivist background of red, white and blue rectangles.
noun
A writer or artist who deals with absurdist themes: the French absurdists of the fifties...
- The serious wackos, the obsessive-compulsive absurdists, may be beyond therapy.
- These are fertile times for political absurdists, a fact that's clearly not been lost on them.
- The real heroes of the piece are the overthinking absurdists whose apparently humorous pranks stemmed from an eternally uncompromising absolutism.
- get (or have) one's end away
- get (or have) one's (own) way
- get (or have or give someone) the hump
- get (or have) someone by the short and curlies (or short hairs)
- get (or have) the goods on
- get (or have) the jump on someone
- get (or have) the worst of it
- get (or keep) one's eye in
- get (or keep) one's hand in
- get (or keep) the show on the road
- get (or lay)one's hands on
- get (or pull) one's finger out
- get (or put) someone's back up
- get (or receive) one's just deserts
- get (or sink) one's teeth into
- get (or start) off on the right (or wrong) foot
- get (or stick) the knife into (or in) someone
- get (or take) a rise out of
- get (or take or have) the bit between (or in) one's teeth
- get (or take or have) the measure of
- get out
- get out of
- get out of bed on the wrong side (or get up on the wrong side of the bed)
- (get) out of my sight!
- get out of someone's face