Roget's Thesaurus

#497. Absurdity

Nouns

absurdity, absurdness etc. adj.; imbecility etc. 499; alogy, nonsense, utter nonsense; paradox, inconsistency; stultiloquy, stultiloquence; nugacity. blunder, muddle, bull; Irishism, Hibernicism; slipslop; anticlimax, bathos; sophism etc. 477. farce, galimathias, amphigouri, rhapsody; farrago etc. (disorder) 59; betise [Fr.]; extravagance, romance; sciamachy. sell, pun, verbal quibble, macaronic. jargon, fustian, twaddle, gibberish etc. (no meaning) 517; exaggeration etc. 549; moonshine, stuff; mare's nest, quibble, self-delusion. vagary, tomfoolery, poppycock, mummery, monkey trick, boutade [Fr.], escapade.

Verbs

play the fool etc. 499; talk nonsense, parler a tort et a travess [Fr.]; battre la campagne [Fr.]; hanemolia bazein [Gr.]; be absurd etc. adj..

Adjectives

absurd, nonsensical, preposterous, egregious, senseless, inconsistent, ridiculous, extravagant, quibbling; self-annulling, self-contradictory; macaronic, punning. foolish etc. 499; sophistical etc. 477; unmeaning etc. 517; without rhyme or reason; fantastic.

Interjections

fiddlededee!, pish!, pho!, in the name of the Prophetfigs! "[Horace Smith].

Phrases

credat Judaeus Apella [Lat.] [Horace]; tell it to the marines.