ABSURDUM

Date "ABSURDUM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms within Context: ABSURDUM

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Confutation	Noun: {ant } confutation, refutation; answer, complete answer; disproof, conviction, redargution, invalidation; exposure, exposition; clincher; retort; reductio ad absurdum; knock down argument, tu quoque argument; sockdolager.
Reasoning,	Prosyllogism, syllogism; enthymeme, sorites, dilemma, perilepsis, a priori reasoning, reductio ad absurdum, horns of a dilemma, argumentum ad hominem, comprehensive argument; empirema, epagoge.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: ABSURDUM

English words defined with "ABSURDUM": Destructive sorties ♦ Indirect demonstration. (references)

Specialty definitions using "ABSURDUM": Burden of a Song ♦ monument. (references)

Non-English Usage: "ABSURDUM" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Latin (absurd, the absurd).

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Non-Fiction Usage: ABSURDUM

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated. The bones of Agammemnon are a show, And ruined is his royal monument, but Agammemnon's fame suffers no diminution in consequence. The monument custom has its reductiones ad absurdum in monuments "to the unknown dead" -- that is to say, monuments to perpetuate the memory of those who have left no memory.
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Usage Frequency: ABSURDUM

"ABSURDUM" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ABSURDUM" is used about 20 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
Noun (singular)	100%	20	78,262

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: ABSURDUM

Expression using "ABSURDUM": reductio ad absurdum. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ABSURDUM

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
absurdum ad reductio	8
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Modern Translation: ABSURDUM

Language		Translations for "ABSURDUM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Greek		εισ άτοπο απαγωγή (reductio ad absurdum). (various references)

Pig Latin		absurdumay

Spanish		absurdo (absurd, absurdity, absurdness, blah, blether, farce, farcical, incongruous, irrational, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous, screwy, silly, wacky). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ABSURDUM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-m-r-s-u-u"
	-2 letters: absurd, aurums, durums, mudras, rumbas, sambur, umbras.
	-3 letters: arums, aurum, bards, barms, bauds, brads, buras, burds, bursa, darbs, daubs, drabs, drams, drubs, drums, dumas, dumbs, duras, durum, mauds, mudra, muras, ramus, rubus, rumba, umbra.
	-4 letters: amus, arbs, arms, arum, bads, bams, bard, barm, bars, baud, brad, bras, buds, bums, bura, burd, burs, dabs.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-m-r-s-u-u"
	+5 letters: submandibular.
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