Definition of "absurd" in English

adjective

1. 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.

2. (obsolete) Inharmonious; dissonant.

3. Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.

4. Dealing with absurdism.

noun

1. (obsolete) An absurdity.

2. (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 universe and his life has no meaning outside of his existence.