Tra từ absurd - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

ab‧surd/əbˈsɜːd, -ˈzɜːd $ -ɜːrd/ adjective
[date : 1500-1600; Language : French; Origin : absurde, from Latin absurdus, from ab- 'away' + surdus 'deaf, stupid']
1. completely stupid or unreasonable SYN ridiculous
quite/slightly/completely etc absurd
　 ▪ It seems quite absurd to expect anyone to drive for 3 hours just for a 20-minute meeting.
　 ▪ It seems an absurd idea.

2. the absurd
something that is completely stupid and unreasonable:
　 ▪ Some of the stories he tells verge on the absurd.

—absurdity noun [UNCOUNTABLE AND COUNTABLE]:
　 ▪ Duncan laughed at the absurdity of the situation.
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THESAURUS
very stupid
▪crazy not at all sensible or reasonable – used when you are very surprised by someone’s behaviour or what they have said :
　 ▪ Ian’s got some crazy plan to drive across Africa.
　 ▪ She looked at me as if I was crazy!
　 ▪ You’re crazy to think of hitch-hiking on your own.
▪ridiculous extremely stupid :
　 ▪ You look ridiculous in that hat.
　 ▪ Some people spend a ridiculous amount of money on cars.
　 ▪ It’s absolutely ridiculous to suggest that he would do something like that.
▪absurd/ludicrous extremely stupid – used especially when an idea or situation seems strange or illogical :
　 ▪ How can a return ticket cost less than a single? It’s totally absurd!
　 ▪ It was a ludicrous idea.
　 ▪ Some of the objections to the theory are simply absurd.
▪laughable so stupid that you cannot believe someone is telling the truth or being serious :
　 ▪ The accusations were almost laughable.
　 ▪ a laughable suggestion
　 ▪ It would be laughable if it wasn’t so serious.

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