Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun the_absurd

1 sense of the absurd

Sense 1
absurd, the absurd -- (a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless; "The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth"--Albert Camus)
       => situation, state of affairs -- (the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time; "the present international situation is dangerous"; "wondered how such a state of affairs had come about"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation"- Franklin D.Roosevelt)