Absurdとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /əbˈsɜːd/, /əbˈzɜːd/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /æbˈsɚd/, /æbˈzɚd/, /əbˈsɚd/, /əbˈzɚd/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)d

形容詞

absurd (comparative absurder or more absurd, superlative absurdest or most absurd)

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. [from mid-16th c.]

   Synonyms: foolish, irrational, ridiculous, preposterous, ludicrous

   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:

     This proffer is absurd and reasonless.

   • 1734, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], epistle IV, London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:

     'Tis phrase absurd to call a villain great

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     “Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.

   • 1979, “The Logical Song”, in Roger Hodgson (lyrics), Breakfast in America, performed by Supertramp:

     I know it sounds absurd / But please, tell me who I am

2. (obsolete) Inharmonious; dissonant. [only early 17th c.]

   Synonyms: inconsistent, incongruous

3. Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
   • 1968 March 2, Joseph Featherstone, “A New Kind of Schooling”, in The New Republic:

     Adults have condemned them to live in what must seem like an absurd universe.

4. Dealing with absurdism.

使用する際の注意点

• In the comparative and superlative degrees, the forms more absurd and most absurd are usually preferred over absurder, absurdest.
• Webster 1913 has the sole definition "Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream."

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:absurd

派生語

Collocations

名詞

absurd (plural absurds)

1. (obsolete) An absurdity. [early 17th–mid 17th c.]
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. [from early 20th century in English]

派生語

• Theatre of the Absurd

参照

Further reading

• “absurd”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “absurd”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “absurd”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “absurd”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “absurd”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “absurd”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “absurd” (US) / “absurd” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.

アナグラム

• Brauds, Burdas