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absurdist

/ab-sur-dist, -zur-/US // æbˈsɜr dɪst, -ˈzɜr- //

荒诞派,荒诞主义,荒谬主义,荒谬的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or dealing with absurdism or the absurd.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an adherent of absurdism, especially a writer whose work is characterized by absurdist ideas.

Examples

  • The stories are absurdist little morsels that make you think deeply about dealing with loss, hardship, and isolation.

  • Yes, he’s a player in an absurdist Shakespearean comedy, but this Bottom chap looks like the real deal.

  • Animaniacs was, in the end, a pretty weird show, equal parts absurdist and educational.

  • So it became the sort of farcical, absurdist thing where the country said this technological service was blocked—but it wasn’t able to block it.

  • If the sleeping brain is forever screening the sometimes absurdist movies that are our dreams, it’s no surprise that now and then it would choose a horror film.

  • Their focus was less explicitly political and more absurdist.

  • But Dave and his crew kept living the nightmare and probing the depths of depravity through their absurdist, folk-art horror-show.

  • Blasim is not the kind of post-modern absurdist who trades in forced, inconsequential whimsy.

  • Thumb to any given page, and the array is stunning and absurdist.

  • In the 1960s, the great abstractionist reveled in making absurdist pictures of (almost) nothing.