surrealist

American  

[suh-ree-uh-list] / səˈri ə lɪst /

noun

• surrealists
  plural

1. (sometimes initial capital letter) an artist or writer using the style, conventions, themes of surrealism.

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adjective

1. (sometimes initial capital letter) of, relating to, or conforming to surrealism.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• surrealists
  plural

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surrealist surrealists

Certainly it’s fascinating to see Wilder, never a strictly naturalistic playwright, continuing in his latter years to embrace the surrealist style that marked much of his dramatic oeuvre.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

He continued to paint too, filling his cottage with surrealist depictions of life-forms he called "biomorphs".

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026

Anyone dialed into online culture in the early aughts encountered the surrealist comedy series born from Flash animation and two brothers spoofing kids books.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025

So the surrealist and experimental elements of the film were shot during postproduction with just me, my DP and lots of trips to the craft store.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2025

It was the surrealist touch that got me.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Their touchstones are silent auteurs and surrealists: F.W.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025

He cites the works of surrealists like Max Ernst and Salvador Dali with his lobster telephone as early inspirations.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2021

He signals his debt to the surrealists by casting Jean-Claude Carrière, a longtime screenwriter for Luis Buñuel, as an older husband who gives James advice.

From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2020

By 1935, Maar was entrenched in the group of Parisian artists calling themselves surrealists.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 15, 2019

European surrealists came across this colorful new art in the first years of the twentieth century.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann