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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ridiculous situation or behavior |
| Synonyms: | BS, applesauce, bull*, crap, craziness, farce, flapdoodle, folly, foolishness, hot air, idiocy, illogicality, illogicalness, improbability, inanity, incongruity, insanity, irrationality, jazz, jive, ludicrousness, ridiculousness, senselessness, silliness, stupidity, unreasonableness |
| Antonyms: | logic, reason, reasonableness, sense |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Concept: | Absurdity. |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
absurdity, absurdness; imbecility; alogy, nonsense; paradox, inconsistency; stultiloquy, stultiloquence; nugacity., blunder, muddle, bull; Irishism, Hibernicism; slipslop; anticlimax, bathos; sophism., farce, galimathias, amphigouri, rhapsody; farrago (disorder); betise; extravagance, romance; sciamachy., sell, pun, verbal quibble, macaronic., jargon, fustian, twaddle (no meaning) [more]; exaggeration; moonshine, stuff; mare's nest, quibble, self-delusion., vagary, tomfoolery, mummery, monkey trick, boutade, escapade.
-verbs
play the fool; talk nonsense, parler a tort et a travess; battre la campagne; be absurd
-adjectives
absurd, nonsensical, preposterous, egregious, senseless, inconsistent, ridiculous, extravagant, quibbling; self-annulling, self-contradictory; macaronic, punning., foolish; sophistical; unmeaning; without rhyme or reason; fantastic.
-phrases
credat Judaeus Apella [Horace]; tell it to the marines.
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| Antonyms: | maxim |
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