Absurd
Crossword Clue and Answers

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This clue in was most recently seen in the wild in Irish Independent - Simple.

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Publications

  • Irish Independent - Simple - Monday, 18 Oct 2021
  • Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Friday, 17 Sep 2021
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Monday, 13 Sep 2021
  • The Guardian Quick - Monday, 19 Jul 2021
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Thursday, 15 Jul 2021
  • Evening Standard Easy Crossword - Friday, 2 Jul 2021
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Monday, 14 Jun 2021
  • The Guardian Quick - Friday, 4 Jun 2021
  • The Guardian Quick - Friday, 21 May 2021
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Saturday, 3 Apr 2021
  • Irish Independent - Simple - Friday, 19 Mar 2021
  • USA Today - Saturday, 5 Dec 2020

Crossword Answers

4 letters

DAFT
Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy"

5 letters

INEPT
Revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable"

INANE
Devoid of intelligence

ANTIC
A ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

SILLY
Inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett

CRAZY
Affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"

6 letters

INSANE
Very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"

7 letters

IDIOTIC
Insanely irresponsible; "an idiotic idea"

FATUOUS
Devoid of intelligence

FOOLISH
Devoid of good sense or judgment; "foolish remarks"; "a foolish decision"

RISIBLE
Arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics"

8 letters

COCKEYED
Turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"

DERISORY
Incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"

FARCICAL
Broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair"

9 letters

THEABSURD
A situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless; "The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth"--Albert Camus

LUDICROUS
Incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"

LAUGHABLE
Arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics"

GROTESQUE
Art characterized by an incongruous mixture of parts of humans and animals interwoven with plants

ILLOGICAL
Lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts"

SCREWBALL
A pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown

10 letters

RIDICULOUS
Incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"

11 letters

NONSENSICAL
Having no intelligible meaning; "nonsense syllables"; "a nonsensical jumble of words"

HAREBRAINED
Very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains"

INCONGRUOUS Chris Roberson
Lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness; "a plan incongruous with reason"; "incongruous behavior"; "a joke that was incongruous with polite conversation"

12 letters

PREPOSTEROUS
Incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous"

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