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| absurdly | |
| 1. adv. In an absurd fashion. |  |
| He orated absurdly. | |
| Absurdly, he concluded his oration with a song. | |
| 2. adv. To an extreme degree. | |
| The critics were absurdly extravagant with their praise. | |
| absurd | |
| 1. adj. 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.(R:SOED5 | |
| 2. adj. (obsolete) Inharmonious; dissonant. | |
| 3. adj. Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value. | |
| 4. adj. Dealing with absurdism. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) An absurdity. | |
| 6. n. (philosophy, often preceded by the) 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 univer | |
