surreal adj

1 characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature" [syn: phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, surrealistic]

2 resembling a dream; "night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality"; "as irrational and surreal as a dream" [syn: dreamlike]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːl

Adjective

surreal (more surreal, most surreal)

1. Having the intense reality of a dream.

Related terms

• real
• surrealism
• surrealist
• surreal number

Translations

• ttbc Swedish: surreella tal

German

Adjective

1. surreal

Surreal in general means bizarre or dreamlike. It may refer to any of the following:

• Surrealism, a movement in philosophy
• Surreal humour, a common aspect of humor
• Surreal numbers, a superset of the real numbers in mathematics
• Surreal Software, a video game developer
• The Surreal Life, an American celebrity reality television series
• Surreal, the name of a Nintendo 64 emulator for the Xbox
• "Surreal" (song), a song by Ayumi Hamasaki
• Surreal (album), the second studio release from the band Xystus