单词 | absurdity |
释义 | absurdity (once / 685 pages) n An absurdity is something ridiculously foolish. The U.S. declaring war on Fiji would be an absurdity. This is the noun form of the adjective absurd, which means silly, hard-to-believe, and kind of crazy. Unless it's Halloween, it would be an absurdity to show up to school in a chicken suit. If you teacher taught math class with a fake French accent, that would also be an absurdity. A lot of comedies are full of absurdities, because an absurdity can be funny. If you're good at thinking of absurdities, maybe you should be a comedy writer. WORD FAMILYabsurdity: absurdities+/absurd: absurder, absurdest, absurdity, absurdly, absurdness USAGE EXAMPLESThe underlying absurdity of those shows was redoubled through his lens, occasionally in the form of magical realism. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) Audiences laughed nervously at the exaggerated absurdity of it all. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) Harambe is an easy laugh line, a sign that someone gets the absurdity of the Internet and wants everyone else to laugh at it too. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1n a ludicrous folly the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior Syn|Hyper fatuity, fatuousness, silliness folly, foolishness, unwiseness the trait of acting stupidly or rashly 2n a message whose content is at variance with reason Syn|Hyper absurdness, ridiculousness bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality a message that seems to convey no meaning |
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