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Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
Salman Rushdie

Meaning of "absurdly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ABSURDLY

absurdly  [æbˈsɜːdlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ABSURDLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Absurdly is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES ABSURDLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of absurdly in the English dictionary

The definition of absurdly in the dictionary is ridiculously.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ABSURDLY


blackguardly
ˈblæɡɑːdlɪ
broadly
ˈbrɔːdlɪ
continuedly
kənˈtɪnjuːdlɪ
crudely
ˈkruːdlɪ
hardly
ˈhɑːdlɪ
lewdly
ˈluːdlɪ
lordly
ˈlɔːdlɪ
nudely
ˈnjuːdlɪ
renewedly
rɪˈnjuːdlɪ
rudely
ˈruːdlɪ
shrewdly
ˈʃruːdlɪ
subduedly
səbˈdjuːdlɪ
thirdly
ˈθɜːdlɪ
unlordly
ʌnˈlɔːdlɪ
untowardly
ˌʌntəˈwɔːdlɪ
weak-kneedly
ˌwiːkˈniːdlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ABSURDLY

abstraction
abstractional
abstractionism
abstractionist
abstractive
abstractively
abstractly
abstractness
abstractor
abstrict
abstriction
abstruse
abstrusely
abstruseness
abstrusity
absurd
absurdism
absurdist
absurdity
absurdness

WORDS THAT END LIKE ABSURDLY

awkwardly
backwardly
bastardly
cowardly
dastardly
downwardly
eastwardly
forwardly
haphazardly
inwardly
leftwardly
northwardly
outwardly
southwardly
standardly
straightforwardly
upwardly
weirdly
westwardly
wizardly

Synonyms and antonyms of absurdly in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ABSURDLY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «absurdly» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of absurdly

Translation of «absurdly» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ABSURDLY

Find out the translation of absurdly to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of absurdly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «absurdly» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

荒谬
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

absurdamente
570 millions of speakers

English

absurdly
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मूर्खता से
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بعبثية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

нелепо
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

absurdamente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অদ্ভূত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

absurdement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak masuk akal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

absurd
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ばかばかしいほど
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

불합리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Absurdly
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vô lý
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அபத்தமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मूर्खपणाची
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

saçma
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

assurdamente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

absurdalnie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безглуздо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

absurd
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παράλογα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

absurd
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

absurt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

absurd
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of absurdly

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ABSURDLY»

The term «absurdly» is regularly used and occupies the 58.867 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ABSURDLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «absurdly» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «absurdly» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about absurdly

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9 QUOTES WITH «ABSURDLY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word absurdly.
1
Tina Brown
To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.
2
Julio Cortazar
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
3
Larry Ellison
Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
4
Andy Hobsbawm
Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.
5
T. E. Lawrence
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.
6
David Nicholls
I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.
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Salman Rushdie
Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly, as apologists for Palestinian 'terrorism.'
8
Charles de Secondat
They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings?
9
Julia Sweeney
Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ABSURDLY»

Discover the use of absurdly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to absurdly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Making Starships and Stargates: The Science of Interstellar ...
Tethers and solar sails are conventional realizations of the basic idea. There may now be a way to achieve these lofty objectives. "Making Starships and Stargates" will have three parts.
James F. Woodward, 2012
2
The Next Ten Minutes: 51 Absurdly Simple Ways to Seize the ...
Some turn to psychotherapy and counseling for help, some turn to spiritual teachings, and many turn to both. The Next Ten Minutes is the guide to help us discover the seeds of transformation and meaning in even the most ordinary routines.
Andrew Peterson, 2010
3
But Enough About Me: A Jersey Girl's Unlikely Adventures ...
Riotously funny and tremendously touching, But Enough About Me is the story of an outsider who couldn’t quite bring herself to become an insider and introduces readers to a hysterical, lovable real-life heroine.
Jancee Dunn, 2006
4
Absurdly Big Adult Joke Book
Johnny Sharpe. They pass round six glasses of tonic water – but one of them is a gin and tonic. * There's one definite way of giving a person amnesia. Lend them money. * A London man had an awful time last week when he didn't realise the ...
Johnny Sharpe, 2011
5
Shakespeare's King Edward the Third,: Absurdly Called, and ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Alexander Teetgen, 2012
6
Becoming Enlightened
It absurdly would be impossible to think of “my body,” or “my head,” or “my mind.” 4. When the body no longer exists, the self absurdly also would not exist. 5. Since mind and body are plural, one person's selves absurdly also would be plural.
Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins, 2009
7
Maps of the Profound: Jam-yang-shay-ba's Great Exposition of ...
If you accept [that the hairs in space of one with an eye disease, and the bees in space appearing to one with an eye disease are obscurational truths], it [absurdly ] follows that these exist! Moreover, it [absurdly] follows that the subject, true ...
Jeffrey Hopkins, 2003
8
Tsong-kha-pa's Final Exposition of Wisdom
It [absurdly] follows that the absence of true existence of form must not be the final mode of subsistence of form. • It [absurdly] follows that realization of the absence of true existence offormmust not suppress with its powerthe apprehension ...
Jeffrey Hopkins, 2014
9
Law and Disorder: Absurdly Funny Moments from the Courts
This is a total fishing expedition).
Charles M. Sevilla, 2014
10
Oxymorons: Absurdly Logical Quilts
Fabric interpretations of oxymorons in 40 quilt designs.
Dianne S. Hire, Marjorie Russell, Renegades (Quilting Group), 2001

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ABSURDLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term absurdly is used in the context of the following news items.
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Every American athlete everywhere lost it over USWNT's absurdly
The US Women's National Team came out swing against Japan in the World Cup Final and every American athletes was loving it. «SB Nation, Jul 15»
2
Media Monkey's Diary: Sun's political struggle, Guido Fawkes, BBC …
Only the cynical, of course, would absurdly conclude that, seeing what was coming down the slipway, Stephenson knew when it was time to be ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
EU zealots shamed by voice of democracy in DAILY MAIL COMMENT
... from the welfare budget, could the Chancellor finally be prepared to take an axe to the labyrinthine and absurdly expensive tax credits system ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
4
Central Station gets a new suburb: Inside Sydney's newest 'Tent City'
But absurdly, given his tender years and the dangers that crawl the city at night, he was safe at last. Today he is in a jovial mood, as he zips up ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
5
SECC not irrelevant just yet
For one, the numbers seemed absurdly low — set at Rs.816 per person per month in rural areas and Rs.1,000 in urban areas by the Planning ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
6
The GOP's pathetic crybaby agenda: Trump, Scalia and the whiny …
Fifteen years ago they began to amp up voter suppression under cover of absurdly inflated claims of voter fraud. If challenged on their motives ... «Salon, Jul 15»
7
Saltwood on the Green: restaurant review
... goat's cheese; an absurdly moreish soft pretzel, with a dish of liquid Welsh rarebit topping for dredging through, and dredging through again. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
8
Some Thoughts From Across the Pond
When we talk about higher education, Americans have a tendency to focus on some imaginary place that looks a bit like Harvard, has absurdly ... «Inside Higher Ed, Jul 15»
9
Greece votes 'No.' Grexit, 'Plan Z' to follow?
Its bloated government sector is richly compensated, can retire on absurdly high pensions at a ridiculously young age, and essentially stifles ... «Communities Digital News, Jul 15»
10
Put Jackson-Lee statue in context
This kind of avoidance has the effect of lulling us into a false sense of having actually moved past it meaningfully or, more absurdly, uprooted it. «Baltimore Sun, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Absurdly [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/absurdly>. May 2024 ».
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