adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an absurd/ridiculous notion
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They had the ridiculous notion that they could make a living from singing.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
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Winter denies the allegation and those who know him dismiss the charge as absurd .
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They condemn as absurd , lessons that teach children about homosexuality years before they can understand the meaning of the word.
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This last ambition may not be as absurd as it looks.
how
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This fact merely needs stating to show how absurd the law is.
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It can even be converted into sudden laughter, when one realizes how absurd the pretence is.
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How simple that concept seems now, but how inhuman, how futuristic, how absurd it sounded to me then.
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I told him how upsetting, and authoritarian, and ultimately how absurd , the whole experience had been.
most
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We allowed them to see us at our most absurd .
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To do that would be to become that most absurd and outmoded of beings, a socialist.
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The auto accident is the most absurd of all adversary proceedings.
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It was truly the most absurd of happenings.
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Q: Of the many things there are to make fun of in Martha, what struck you as the most absurd ?
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At its most absurd it might mean that companies could be sued for sending letters to the wrong address.
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The greatest scientists have mixed insight amounting to genius with the most absurd follies at other times.
quite
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I had seen shyness stiffen her into a quite absurd primness.
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The Victoria County History mentions a quite absurd figure of £250,000.
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In any case the idea of such a thing between me and the lieutenant is quite absurd .
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It sounds quite absurd but the other day I walked up the footpath from the road just to see if it was.
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Indeed it would be quite absurd if companies can not correct any mistake if all interested parties agree.
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His views on motion seem to us today quite absurd .
slightly
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And once you've had one treble gin it seems slightly absurd not to have another.
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He'd had more time to think, to get used to this slightly absurd rapture.
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A little idiosyncratic, I think, my appearance - but without going to the slightly absurd lengths of ginger hair and freckles.
so
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He is so absurd that he adds a note of humor to an otherwise dry, tedious, prosaic play.
■ NOUN
idea
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Was he laughing at the absurd idea of being an old fogey?
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Of course it was an absurd idea , and very sensibly Rex said nothing.
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An absurd idea took hold of her.
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The absurd idea , he wrote, that a work of art grows from nothing into something, from acorn into oak.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Absurd
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a TV program with an absurd plot
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The idea seemed absurd .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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How simple that concept seems now, but how inhuman, how futuristic, how absurd it sounded to me then.
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I had seen shyness stiffen her into a quite absurd primness.
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It would be absurd if it were not so unlikely.
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Some gigs stand out as being particularly absurd .
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That kind of thinking is absurd .
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The fact that this singular, somewhat oppressive female was seeking out a religious man seemed absurd .
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This may seem a little absurd since the buyer in possession may well not be a mercantile agent.