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Definition of surreal in English: surrealadjective səˈrɪəlsəˈriəl Having the qualities of surrealism; bizarre. a surreal mix of fact and fantasy Example sentencesExamples - I heard somewhere that Salvador Dali used that technique in order to dream up his surreal images.
- It was surreal and very funny - all I needed was a white cat to stroke menacingly and I was set.
- The crazy collage of styles is here but, overall, the feel is less zany and surreal.
- The events still seem to have an insanely surreal and improbable edge to them.
- She also has a splendid surreal streak, which she doesn't get to use enough.
- She's also an up-and-coming fiction writer with a penchant for the dark and surreal.
- His universe was a bizarre and surreal place but his writing also hinted at serious themes.
- The whole episode, he says, had been so surreal he was expecting the strangest of conclusions.
- Paul is manic and edgy on stage, with the occasional flash of surreal genius.
- This possibility was so surreal to me that I contemplated doing it just for the experience.
- It's surreal, to see somebody who looks like fiction, standing there in the room.
- How we manage to exist like this, with these great surreal contrasts, is a mystery to me.
- The disbelief compounded a bizarre, almost surreal fortnight for the south coast club.
- It combined multiple monitors in a striking, somewhat surreal sculptural assembly.
- Dining out in Japan is a lot more diverse and surreal than it used to be.
- It was strangely haunting and surreal and somehow gave the impression of being French.
- That weird, surreal, juxtaposed image will be one that stays with me forever.
- These are combined with compositions straight out of film noir at its most surreal.
- Decision met with a surreal mix of silence and a notable lack of complaints from anyone in a red and white shirt.
- We can honestly say it's the most surreal piece of artwork we've ever seen - but we love it!
Synonyms zany, madcap, offbeat, quirky, outlandish, eccentric, idiosyncratic, ridiculous, nonsensical, crazy, absurd, insane, far out, fantastic, bizarre, peculiar, weird, odd, strange, cranky, freakish
Derivatives nounsərɪˈalɪti This form allows the audience to experience a transition twice, from reality to surreality at the beginning of the play's second half and from surreality back to reality at the end of the final dance. Example sentencesExamples - His present work concerns itself with the surreality of living in urban dystopias that is experienced on a collective level.
- These three performances not only adhere to the tone of the film, they enhance it - the film's balance between the stylized normalcy of reality and creepy surreality is brought to life through these three actors.
- The war novel contains an element of surreality in order to deny the horror.
- It is dance as theatre, concert and ballet in one, and shows how full of originality and surreality high modernism could be.
adverb Matt Dillon is as surreally handsome in person as he is on screen. Example sentencesExamples - The subjects are surreally grouped together, with no clear spatial relationships among them.
- Along with the instrumentals composed specifically for its soundtrack, the piece incorporated some of the record's pop numbers, surreally transformed on stage by a classically trained opera singer.
- In the first few pages, however, there are intriguing hints that this book might be about to hurtle surreally into the territory of magical realism.
- She looked dropped into the scene from some other place, surreally disconnected like Dick Van Dyke dancing with the penguins.
Origin 1930s: back-formation from surrealism. Definition of surreal in US English: surrealadjectivesəˈrēəlsəˈriəl Having the qualities of surrealism; bizarre. a surreal mix of fact and fantasy Example sentencesExamples - She also has a splendid surreal streak, which she doesn't get to use enough.
- She's also an up-and-coming fiction writer with a penchant for the dark and surreal.
- Paul is manic and edgy on stage, with the occasional flash of surreal genius.
- The crazy collage of styles is here but, overall, the feel is less zany and surreal.
- His universe was a bizarre and surreal place but his writing also hinted at serious themes.
- It was strangely haunting and surreal and somehow gave the impression of being French.
- This possibility was so surreal to me that I contemplated doing it just for the experience.
- Dining out in Japan is a lot more diverse and surreal than it used to be.
- It was surreal and very funny - all I needed was a white cat to stroke menacingly and I was set.
- We can honestly say it's the most surreal piece of artwork we've ever seen - but we love it!
- I heard somewhere that Salvador Dali used that technique in order to dream up his surreal images.
- It's surreal, to see somebody who looks like fiction, standing there in the room.
- These are combined with compositions straight out of film noir at its most surreal.
- The events still seem to have an insanely surreal and improbable edge to them.
- How we manage to exist like this, with these great surreal contrasts, is a mystery to me.
- Decision met with a surreal mix of silence and a notable lack of complaints from anyone in a red and white shirt.
- The whole episode, he says, had been so surreal he was expecting the strangest of conclusions.
- That weird, surreal, juxtaposed image will be one that stays with me forever.
- The disbelief compounded a bizarre, almost surreal fortnight for the south coast club.
- It combined multiple monitors in a striking, somewhat surreal sculptural assembly.
Synonyms zany, madcap, offbeat, quirky, outlandish, eccentric, idiosyncratic, ridiculous, nonsensical, crazy, absurd, insane, far out, fantastic, bizarre, peculiar, weird, odd, strange, cranky, freakish
Origin 1930s: back-formation from surrealism. |