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surreal

UK:^*^*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/səˈriːəl/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/səˈriəl, -ˈril/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(sə rē′əl, -rēl′)

sur•re•al /səˈriəl, -ˈril/USA pronunciation adj.

having the strange, unreal feeling or quality of a dream;
unreal;
bizarre:a surreal situation of people starving to death while shiploads of food were only a few feet away behind barbed wire.

See -real-.

sur•re•al (sə rē′əl, -rēl′),USA pronunciation adj.

Fine Art, Literatureof, pertaining to, or characteristic of surrealism; surrealistic.
Fine Arthaving the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream;
unreal;
fantastic:surreal complexities of the bureaucracy.

1935–40; back formation from surrealism; see sur-¹, real¹

sur•re′al•ly, adv.

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surreal /səˈrɪəl/ adj

suggestive of surrealism; dreamlike

'surreal' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

magic realism - surrealistic

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