absurd
/əbˈsəːd/
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American sound/əbˈsəːd/
əbˈsəːd
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əb - ˈsəːd -> absurd
Myanmar meaning
(adj) ဖြစ်နိုင်ခြေမရှိသော။ အဓိပ္ပါယ် မရှိ သော။ ကိုးရိုးကားရားနိုင်သော။ ရယ်ဖွယ် ဖြစ်သော။
Full entry
၁။ ဖြစ်နိုင်ခြေမရှိသော။ အဓိပ္ပာယ် မရှိ သော။ What an absurd idea! ❍ It was absurd of you to suggest such a thing.
၂။ ကိုးရိုးကားရားနိုင်သော။ ရယ်ဖွယ် ဖြစ်သော။ That uniform makes them look absurd.
❏ the absurd n [sing]
ကတ်သီးကတ်သတ်နိုင်သောအရာ။ her sense of the absurd ❍ Some of his criticisms verge on the absurd.
More examples
- She makes the most absurd claims about her past achievements.
- [it is absurd to do something] : It’s completely absurd to suggest that we shouldn’t test students.
- Don’t be absurd – you’re just worrying about nothing.
- [to absurd lengths] : Jack goes to absurd lengths to prove his point.
- She has a wonderfully absurd sense of humour.
- He’s beginning to realize the absurdity of the situation.
Synonyms
ridiculous, silly, strange, illogical, meaningless, bizarre, incongruous, batty, campy, crazy, daffy, dippy, empty, farcical, flaky, fooling around, foolish, for grins, freaky, futile, gagged up, goofy, hollow, idiotic, inane, irrational, jokey, joshing, laughable, loony, ludicrous, nonsensical, nutty, off the wall, pointless, preposterous, purposeless, sappy, screwy, senseless, stupid, tomfool, unreasonable, wacky
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