Absurd or The Absurd may refer to:

• Absurd (band), German metal band from the 1990s
• "Absurd", a 1997 song by Fluke, from the album Risotto
• "Absurd" (song), a 2021 song by Guns N' Roses
• Theatre of the Absurd, art form utilizing the philosophy of Absurdism
• Absurd (film), 1981 Italian film
• Absurd or surreal humour
  • Absurdist fiction

• Absurdity, general and technical usage—associated with extremely poor reasoning, the ridiculous, or nonsense
  • The Absurd, the conflict between the human tendency to seek a certain meaning of life and the failure to find any
    • Absurdism, a philosophy based on the belief that the universe is irrational and meaningless
  • Reductio ad absurdum, a type of logical argument