Negative poles seen to change? Absurd! (8)
I believe the answer is:
nonsense
'absurd' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'negative poles seen to change?' is the wordplay.
'negative' becomes 'no' (no is a kind of negative).
'poles' becomes 'ns' (North and South poles).
'to change?' indicates an anagram (I've seen 'to change' mean this).
'seen' with letters rearranged gives 'ense'.
'no'+'ns'+'ense'='NONSENSE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for nonsense that I've seen before include "Farce" , "Words or ideas that don't make sense" , "Bull" , "Rubbish; absurdity" , "Baloney" .)