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Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous.

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Noun:

  • obsolete An Alexander Pope
  • philosophy The opposition between the human search for meaning in life and the inability to find any.
  • (''with'' '''the''') That which is absurd.

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