absurdist

[ ab-sur-dist, -zur- ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or dealing with absurdism or the absurd.

noun

1. an adherent of absurdism, especially a writer whose work is characterized by absurdist ideas.

Word History and Origins

Origin of absurdist¹

First recorded in 1950–55; absurd + -ist

Example Sentences

The stories are absurdist little morsels that make you think deeply about dealing with loss, hardship, and isolation.

From Outside Online

Yes, he’s a player in an absurdist Shakespearean comedy, but this Bottom chap looks like the real deal.

From Fortune

Animaniacs was, in the end, a pretty weird show, equal parts absurdist and educational.

From Ars Technica

So it became the sort of farcical, absurdist thing where the country said this technological service was blocked—but it wasn’t able to block it.

From MIT Technology Review

If the sleeping brain is forever screening the sometimes absurdist movies that are our dreams, it’s no surprise that now and then it would choose a horror film.

From Time

Their focus was less explicitly political and more absurdist.

From The Daily Beast

But Dave and his crew kept living the nightmare and probing the depths of depravity through their absurdist, folk-art horror-show.

From The Daily Beast

Blasim is not the kind of post-modern absurdist who trades in forced, inconsequential whimsy.

From The Daily Beast

Thumb to any given page, and the array is stunning and absurdist.

From The Daily Beast

In the 1960s, the great abstractionist reveled in making absurdist pictures of (almost) nothing.

From The Daily Beast