absurd
The chances of winning the lottery are absurdly low.
Some of his decisions seem absurdly removed from common sense.
Despite her absurdly busy schedule, she made time to visit her fans.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stupid and silly
absurd
absurdity
adolescent
against your better judgmentidiom
Alice-in-Wonderland
dopily
dorky
dottiness
dotty
dozily
in his/her/their wisdomidiom
in someone's infinite wisdomidiom
inadvisable
injudicious
injudiciously
uncritical
uncritically
undiscriminating
unintelligent
unperceptive

Examples of absurdly

absurdly
He has cut his salary, abstained from alcohol, worked absurdly long hours, and shared the presidential residence with members of his cabinet.
Or are the molecular 'clocks' horological nightmares sometimes running absurdly fast, and other times scarcely ticking?
Such musings may reflect an absurdly incautious optimism.
The proposed view conflates the latter two in such a way as to absurdly eliminate the constraints of the linguistic component of a statutory directive.
In fact, as the number of backgrounds becomes large, the identity becomes absurdly small.
The smallest language compatible with that could be very small indeed - absurdly small.
The cost, you might think, is absurdly high.
This is an absurdly ambitious set of goals.
Serious political issues are positioned next to absurdly deadpan comedy without any clear signals as to how we are intended to read them.
The aims of this article then may sound either absurdly reductivist or potentially pretentious, while its methodology invites accusations of naivety or confusion.
The speaker often employs hyperbole and is given to the constant utterance of absurdly emphatic exclamations, employing idiomatic and proverbial expressions, which are often allusive.
Levels of deception that would normally be dismissed as absurdly improbable therefore become troublingly convincing.
For since indefinite uncontrolled natural increase is absurdly impossible (as we have just seen), in the long run mankind must choose between low birth rates and high death rates.
These figures are absurdly inflated.
If all women worked, the number of children would be negative, and at a participation rate of about 60%, still absurdly high, there would be no children.
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