INCONGRUOUS vs ABSURD: NOUN
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- The condition or state in which humans exist in an absurd universe, without meaning or purpose. Used chiefly with the.
- An unreasonable person or thing; one who or that which is characterized by unreasonableness; an absurdity.
- An absurdity.
- A situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless
INCONGRUOUS vs ABSURD: ADJECTIVE
- Lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness
- Not in agreement, as with principles; inconsistent.
- Not in keeping with what is correct, proper, or logical; inappropriate.
- Not congruous; reciprocally disagreeing; not capable of harmonizing or readily assimilating; inharmonious; inappropriate; unsuitable; not fitting; inconsistent; improper
- Two numbers, which, with respect to a third, are such that their difference can not be divided by it without a remainder, the two numbers being said to be incongruous with respect to the third; as, twenty and twenty-five are incongruous with respect to four.
- Not similar or congruent; not matching or fitting in.
- Lacking in harmony; incompatible.
- Inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense
- Completely devoid of wisdom or good sense
- Extremely unreasonable, incongruous, or inappropriate.
- Impossible to take seriously; silly: : foolish.
- Of, relating to, or manifesting the view that there is no order or meaning in human life or in the universe.
- Of or relating to absurdism.
- Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and flatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous
- Having no rational or orderly relationship to people's lives; meaningless; lacking order or value.
- Dealing with absurdism.
- Incongruous;inviting ridicule
INCONGRUOUS vs ABSURD: OTHER WORD TYPES
- In the theory of numbers, not congruent: thus, 7 and 8 are incongruous to the modulus 3, giving different remainders when divided by the modulus.
- Not congruous; incapable of reciprocally fitting and agreeing; unsuited or unsuitable; inharmonious.
- Consisting of inappropriate parts, or of parts not fitly put together; disjointed: as, an incongruous story.
- Synonyms Inconsistent, etc. (see incompatible), unsuitable, unsuited, unfit, inappropriate, ill-matched, out of keeping.
- So unreasonable as to invite derision
- Synonyms Absurd, Silly, Foolish, Stupid, Irrational, Unreasonable, Preposterous, Infatuated, ridiculous, nonsensical, senseless, incongruous, unwise, ill-judged, ill-advised. (See foolish.) Foolish, absurd, and preposterous imply a contradiction of common sense, rising in degree from foolish, which is commonly applied where the contradiction is small or trivial. That which is foolish is characterized by weakness of mind, and provokes our contempt. That which is silly is still weaker, and more contemptible in its lack of sense; silly is the extreme in that direction. That which is absurd does not directly suggest weakness of mind, but it is glaringly opposed to common sense and reason: as, that a thing should be unequal to itself is absurd. That which is preposterous is the height of absurdity, an absurdity as conspicuous as getting a thing wrong side before; it excites amazement that any one should be capable of such an extreme of foolishness. That which is irrational is contrary to reason, but not especially to common sense. Unreasonable is more often used of the relation of men to each other; it implies less discredit to the understanding, but more to the will, indicating an unwillingness to conform to reason. Irrational ideas, conclusions; unreasonable demands, assumptions, people. An infatuated person is so possessed by a misleading idea or passion that his thoughts and conduct are controlled by it and turned into folly. He who is stupid appears to have little intelligence; that which is stupid is that which would be natural in a person whose powers of reasoning are defective or suspended.
- Specifically In logic or philosophy, inconsistent with reason; logically contradictory; impossible: as, that the whole is less than the sum of its parts is an absurd proposition; an absurd hypothesis.
- Being or acting contrary to common sense or sound judgment; inconsistent with common sense; ridiculous; nonsensical: as, an absurd statement; absurd conduct; an absurd fellow.
INCONGRUOUS vs ABSURD: RELATED WORDS
- Preposterous, Odd, Unlogical, Out or keeping, Discrepant, Inconsistent, Unreasonable, Inappropriate, Unfitting, Incompatible, Ironical, Illogical, Inharmonious, Ironic, Absurd
- Bizarre, Silly, Idiotic, Outrageous, Laughable, Unlogical, Derisory, Unreasonable, Incongruous, Foolish, Illogical, Nonsensical, Preposterous, Ridiculous, Ludicrous
INCONGRUOUS vs ABSURD: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Preposterous, Odd, Unlogical, Out or keeping, Discrepant, Inconsistent, Unreasonable, Inappropriate, Unfitting, Incompatible, Ironical, Illogical, Inharmonious, Ironic, Absurd
- Bizarre, Silly, Idiotic, Outrageous, Laughable, Unlogical, Derisory, Unreasonable, Incongruous, Foolish, Illogical, Nonsensical, Preposterous, Ridiculous, Ludicrous
INCONGRUOUS vs ABSURD: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Van Dyke most enjoyed the incongruous casting of Jeffries.
- To the regular officer this seemed incongruous and unfair.
- American political power might seem incongruous with recent events.
- It seems incongruous to insist too forcefully on peace.
- It is an incongruous union of decency and evil.
- Here is the incongruous, a feature of several parables.
- The fragments are thus both formally and narratively incongruous.
- Every thing is incongruous in a Southern establishment.
- Keep out of all incongruous ties with unbelievers.
- At first, it seems like an incongruous moment.
- For there are two types of great humorist: those who love to see a man absurd and those who hate to see him absurd.
- For him the tragedy of Ivan Ilyich is not that he lives in an absurd world, but that his approach to living is absurd.
- It made what he was thinking seem even more absurd, and he needed it to be absurd.
- Already the absurd is opposed to the absurd.
- But I think the stuff that holds up the best really is just the absurd, absurd visual puns.
- David Hume insult the Religionists, as absurd; They, him, as tentimes more absurd?
- And welcome to a new edition of Absurd Interviews: Being absurd before it was too mainstream!
- And welcome to a new edition of Absurd Interviews: Being absurd before it was too mainstream.
- Yankees is the most absurd part of this already absurd scenario.
- He would say bluntly that he takes absurd positions, makes absurd demands, says absurd things because that makes people say what they actually mean.
INCONGRUOUS vs ABSURD: QUESTIONS
- Is Beowulf's heroic prowess incongruous with the poem's other portrayals?
- What is left incongruous hemianopia with macular sparing due to hydrocephalus?
- What are incongruous settings that can cause a creepy mood?
- Is Prospero's Tempest incongruous with the pastoral genre?
- Is there such a thing as genuinely incongruous features?
- What does Camus mean by authenticity and the absurd?
- Does an absurd argument lead to a normal conclusion?
- What is Meursault's absurd belief about human nature?
- What is absurd According to the Cambridge English corpus?
- What is Brecht's contribution to theatre of absurd?
- Is there anything so absurd as the English tragicomedy?
- What are the characteristics of absurd theatre form?
- How did existentialism influence theatre of the absurd?
- Is zombie infestation still an absurd build-around?
- How does Esslin use the word absurd in theatre of the absurd?