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- Dictionarysurreal/səˈrɪəl/
adjective
- 1. having the qualities of surrealism; bizarre: "a surreal mix of fact and fantasy"
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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.
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. 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.
SURREAL definition: strange and not real, like something in a dream: . Learn more.
