s difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them
n a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth"--Albert Camus
s inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense
the absurd predicament of seeming to argue that virtue is highly desirable but intensely unpleasant"- Walter Lippman
s incongruous; inviting ridicule
the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework