Meaning of absurdity | Babel Free
əbˈsɜːd.ɪ.tiDefinitions
Equivalents
Dansk
absurditet
עברית
הבל
Հայերեն
անհեթեթություն
Italiano
assurdità
Қазақ тілі
мағынасыздық
Kurdî
absûrd
Македонски
апсурд
Română
absurditate
Türkçe
absürtlük
Examples
“And it is a fact that in these two days the boy had almost talked over his mother, too; had parried all her objections one after another with that indignant good sense⟳ which is often the perfection of absurdity …”
“The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number⟳”
“Neither [Jones][…] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order⟳ to establish⟳ "priority."”
“There's credit too for highlighting the problems of Manchester's Castlefield Corridor, where he showed the absurdity of building Ordsall Chord to feed⟳ more trains into the congested corridor without upgrading the corridor itself.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
See also
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