surreal
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.
Origin of surreal
1Other words from surreal
- sur·re·al·ly, adverb
- sur·re·al·i·ty [suh-ree-al-i-tee], /sə riˈæl ɪ ti/, noun
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How to use surreal in a sentence
“When this happened, it was so surreal that anything like that could’ve happened, to Yeardley especially,” Love said.
Yeardley Love’s mother has spent a decade working to end relationship abuse | Taylor DeVille | November 11, 2020 | Washington PostRepresenting the Herd, especially in this game on the 50th anniversary, will be surreal.
There is plenty of happiness in college football — if you know where to look | Chuck Culpepper | November 9, 2020 | Washington PostIt was kind of a surreal thing … Everybody gave $1, I gave $1, and the winner got the money.
Does Free Food (and Other Election Festivities) Increase Voter Turnout? | Jenny G. Zhang | October 29, 2020 | EaterFor now, these planes sit silently in the Australian outback, a surreal monument to a different time.
The world’s grounded jumbo jets sit in this desert parking lot in the middle of nowhere | Bernhard Warner | October 27, 2020 | FortuneIn the campaign, the flowers live a life of their own in a world, real but surreal.
Jodie Turner-Smith Blossoms As The New Face Of Gucci Bloom | Allison McGevna | October 6, 2020 | Essence.com
Usually the bombs do not fall here, and there is a surreality to it when they do.
There was a sense of camaraderie that came from the surreality of their situation.
But I'm talking about Washington, where much reality is surreality to begin with.
Or maybe I just think that I prefer to mirror the surreality of the world in this way.
I think it was the sheer surreality of the event that set me off.
British Dictionary definitions for surreal
/ (səˈrɪəl) /
suggestive of surrealism; dreamlike
the surreal the atmosphere or qualities evoked by surrealism
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