absurdity

Roget category 497

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.5. Results of reasoning
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#497. Absurdity

noun

absurdity, absurdness etc. adj. — imbecility etc. 499 — alogy^†, nonsense, utter nonsense — paradox, inconsistency — stultiloquy^†, stultiloquence^† — nugacity^†.
blunder, muddle, bull — Irishism^†, Hibernicism^† — slipslop^† — anticlimax, bathos — sophism etc. 477.
farce, galimathias^†, amphigouri^†, rhapsody — farrago etc. (disorder) 59 — betise [Fr.] — extravagance, romance — sciamachy^†.
sell, pun, verbal quibble, macaronic^†.
jargon, fustian, twaddle, gibberish etc. (no meaning) 517 — exaggeration etc. 549 — moonshine, stuff — mare's nest, quibble, self-delusion.
vagary, tomfoolery, poppycock, mummery, monkey trick, boutade [Fr.], escapade.

verb

play the fool etc. 499 — talk nonsense, parler a tort et a travess [Fr.] — battre la campagne [Fr.] — hanemolia bazein [Gr.] — be absurd etc. adj..

adjective

absurd, nonsensical, preposterous, egregious, senseless, inconsistent, ridiculous, extravagant, quibbling — self-annulling, self-contradictory — macaronic^†, punning.
foolish etc. 499 — sophistical etc. 477 — unmeaning etc. 517 — without rhyme or reason — fantastic.

interjection

fiddlededee!, pish!, pho! ^†, in the name of the Prophet
figs! " [Horace Smith].

phrase

credat Judaeus Apella [Lat.] [Horace]; tell it to the marines.

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