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absurd

Pronunciation: /abˈsʉɖ/

“absurd” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its 2 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. absurd (contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth)
  2. absurdist (of or relating to absurdism)

Etymology

From Latin absurdus (“incongruous, dissonant, out of tune”), from both ab- (“from, away from, off”), from Latin ab (“from, away from, on, in”), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”) + and from surdus (“silent, deaf, dull-sounding”), from Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“to resound; ringing, whistling”).

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