surreal
[suh-ree-uh l, -reel]
- of, relating to, or characteristic of surrealism, an artistic and literary style; surrealistic.
- having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic: surreal complexities of the bureaucracy.
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Origin of surreal
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The insurrectionists seemed actors in a surreal episode of revolutionary play-acting in which the curtain was about to fall.
A slow, surreal tide of deformation has appeared throughout the city.
There followed a series of rooms and scenes, showing various horrors or surreal scenes.
It must be surreal to be working on a movie in the Rocky franchise and have Sylvester Stallone actually be there.
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The artists are no stranger to the whimsical and the surreal.
surreal
- suggestive of surrealism; dreamlike
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- the surreal the atmosphere or qualities evoked by surrealism
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Word Origin and History for surreal
adj.
1936, back-formation from surrealism.
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