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adjective
- 1. having the qualities of surrealism; bizarre: "a surreal mix of fact and fantasy"
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The meaning of SURREAL is marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream; also : unbelievable, fantastic. How to use surreal in a sentence. Did you know?
strange; not seeming real; like a dream: Driving through the total darkness was a slightly surreal experience. Synonyms. dreamlike. surrealistic. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Strange, suspicious and unnatural. aberrantly. abnormally. add. freakishly. freakishness. funnily enough idiom. ghostliness. perversely. perversity. perverted.
strange; not seeming real; like a dream: Driving through the total darkness was a slightly surreal experience. Synonyms. dreamlike. surrealistic. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Strange, suspicious and unnatural. aberrant. aberrantly.
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.
If you describe something as surreal, you mean that the elements in it are combined in a strange way that you would not normally expect, like in a dream. This is undoubtedly one of the most surreal movies ever made.
The adjective surreal comes from Surrealism, a movement that produced films, writing, painting, and other art forms that often contained irrational, disjointed images. So, surreal describes something that’s a bizarre mix of elements, often jarring and seemingly nonsensical.
sur·re·al. (sə-rē′əl) adj. 1. Having qualities attributed to or associated with surrealism: "Even with most facilities shut down ... a few mavericks managed to slip into the park to sample the almost surreal emptiness before the shutdown ended." (Peter H. King). 2. Having an oddly dreamlike quality. [Back-formation from surrealism .]
Definition of surreal adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
SURREAL definition: strange and not real, like something in a dream: . Learn more.
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.
