absurdist

[ ab-sur-dist, -zur- ]

/ æbˈsɜr dɪst, -ˈzɜr- /

Save This Word!

adjective

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

noun

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

QUIZ

ALL IN FAVO(U)R OF THIS BRITISH VS. AMERICAN ENGLISH QUIZ

There's an ocean of difference between the way people speak English in the US vs. the UK. Are your language skills up to the task of telling the difference? Let's find out!

Question 1 of 7

True or false? British English and American English are only different when it comes to slang words.

true

false

TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUT

Origin of absurdist

First recorded in 1950–55; absurd + -ist

Words nearby absurdist

abstriction, abstruse, abstrusity, absurd, absurdism, absurdist, absurdity, absurd, theater of the, abt., ABTA, A/B test

How to use absurdist in a sentence

The stories are absurdist little morsels that make you think deeply about dealing with loss, hardship, and isolation.
3 New Fiction Books Explore Disaster and Survival|Erin Berger|March 3, 2021|Outside Online
Yes, he’s a player in an absurdist Shakespearean comedy, but this Bottom chap looks like the real deal.
The cloud of impeachment hangs over the markets—even Bitcoin is sinking|Bernhard Warner|January 11, 2021|Fortune
Animaniacs was, in the end, a pretty weird show, equal parts absurdist and educational.
The Animaniacs reboot, reviewed: Zany is harder to pull off in 2020|Kate Cox|November 23, 2020|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.
Podcast: How Russia’s everything company works with the Kremlin|Anthony Green|September 30, 2020|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.
Scientists Are Learning to Read—and Change—Your Nightmares|Jeffrey Kluger|August 6, 2020|Time
Their focus was less explicitly political and more absurdist.
Before the Bros, SantaCon Was as an Anti-Corporate Protest|David Freedlander|December 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But Dave and his crew kept living the nightmare and probing the depths of depravity through their absurdist, folk-art horror-show.
My Friend Oderus Urungus: GWAR’s Dave Brockie Was a High School Punk Legend|Andy Hinds|March 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Blasim is not the kind of post-modern absurdist who trades in forced, inconsequential whimsy.
Iraq, Terror, and the Surreal: Hassan Blasim’s ‘The Corpse Exhibition’|Brian Van Reet|March 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Thumb to any given page, and the array is stunning and absurdist.
The A-Z Dictionary of Google Images—For the Moment|Sarah Moroz|February 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the 1960s, the great abstractionist reveled in making absurdist pictures of (almost) nothing.
Ad Reinhardt's Black (-on-Black) Humor|Blake Gopnik|December 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST