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Definition: Absurdly |
AbsurdlyAdverb1. In an absurd manner or to an absurd degree; "an absurdly rich young woman". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "absurdly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Crosswords: Absurdly |
| English words defined with "absurdly": bellbottom trousers, bellbottoms. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "absurdly": Peterloo ♦ Quixotic ♦ symbolic ♦ Terminal Oriented Social Science. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | Tall. Tall and absurdly thin |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SYMBOLIC, adj. Pertaining to symbols and the use and interpretation of symbols. They say 'tis conscience feels compunction; I hold that that's the stomach's function, For of the sinner I have noted That when he's sinned he's somewhat bloated, Or ill some other ghastly fashion Within that bowel of compassion. True, I believe the only sinner Is he that eats a shabby dinner. You know how Adam with good reason, For eating apples out of season, Was "cursed." But that is all symbolic: The truth is, Adam had the colic. G.J. T T, the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, was by the Greeks absurdly called tau. In the alphabet whence ours comes it had the form of the rude corkscrew of the period, and when it stood alone (which was more than the Phoenicians could always do) signified Tallegal, translated by the learned Dr. Brownrigg, "tanglefoot." |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Absurdly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Absurdly" is used about 187 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 187 | 22,491 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "absurdly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | absurd (absurd, farcical, ludicrous, nonsensical, object, preposterous). (various references) | |
Arabic | على نحو سخيف. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | глупаво (bad, badly, fatuously, foolishly, stupidly). (various references) | |
Chinese | '谬地. (various references) | |
Czech | absurdnì (laughingly), nesmysly (double dutch, drivel, moonshine, stuff and nonsense), nesmyslné. (various references) | |
Finnish | nurinkurisesti (the wrong way). (various references) | |
French | absurdement, ridiculement. (various references) | |
German | sinnwidrig. (various references) | |
Greek | παράλογα. (various references) | |
Hungarian | képtelenül. (various references) | |
Indonesian | bukan main (excruciatingly, stunning, unbelievable). (various references) | |
Italian | assurdamente. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 無闇に (at random, indiscreetly, recklessly, unreasonably), 無暗に (at random, indiscreetly, recklessly, unreasonably). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | むやみに (at random, indiscreetly, recklessly, unreasonably). (various references) | |
Korean | 황당하게. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | absurdlyay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | absurdamente, incongruentemente, disparatadamente. (various references) | |
Romanian | absurd (absurd, absurdity, Dotty, fabulous, foolish, impossible, inept, irrational, ludicrous, mad, mindless, nonsensical, piffling, preposterous, recondite, ridiculous, silly, stupid, temerarious, unreasonable), pânã la ridicol, iraţional (absurd, irrational, unreasonable). (various references) | |
Russian | нелепо (foolishly). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | apsurdno, besmisleno (balderdash). (various references) | |
Spanish | absurdamente. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сміховинно, нісенітно, безглуздо (obtusely, simply, wantonly), по-дурному (fatuously, foolishly, stupidly). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "absurdly" (pronounced ubser"dlē) |
| 4 | -er" d l ē | thirdly. |
| 3 | -d l ē | acidly, admittedly, advisedly, allegedly, assertedly, assuredly, avidly, avowedly, awkwardly, badly, baldly, belatedly, blandly, blindly, boldly, broadly, candidly, coldly, contentedly, cowardly, crudely, cuddly, dastardly, deadly, decidedly, deservedly, determinedly, Diddley, kindly, doggedly, downwardly, evenhandedly, excitedly, fondly, friendly, gladly, godly, goodly, grandly, guardedly, haphazardly, hardly, heatedly, hurriedly, idly, inwardly, loudly, madly, markedly, medley, mildly, oddly, otherworldly, outwardly, placidly, pointedly, profoundly, proudly, purportedly, rapidly, repeatedly, reportedly, reputedly, Ridley, rigidly, roundly, rudely, ruggedly, sadly, secondly, shrewdly, solidly, soundly, splendidly, straightforwardly, stupidly, supposedly, timidly, unabashedly, unashamedly, undoubtedly, unexpectedly, unfriendly, ungodly, unprecedentedly, upwardly, validly, vividly, weirdly, wholeheartedly, wickedly, widely, wildly, worldly, wretchedly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-l-r-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: durably. | |
-2 letters: absurd, bursal, daubry, drably, suably, sudary, usably. | |
-3 letters: aryls, badly, balds, baldy, bards, bauds, blurs, brads, brays, buras, burds, burls, burly, bursa, byrls, darbs, daubs, dauby, drabs, drays, drubs, duals, dural, duras, lards, lardy, lauds, lyard, sadly, saury, slurb, sural, surly, yards, yauds, yauld. | |
-4 letters: ably, abys, albs, arbs, aryl, auld, bads. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-l-r-s-u-y" | |
+3 letters: lumberyards, subdermally, undesirably. | |
+4 letters: disreputably, subsidiarily. | |
+5 letters: subordinately. | |
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