surreal English

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surreal Adjective

— If something is surreal, it is strange or unbelievable. The experience was surreal.

surreal

— adjective (= dreamlike) resembling a dream night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality as irrational and surreal as a dream

— adjective (= phantasmagoric) characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows — -J.C.Powys the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature

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surrealistic

phantasmagorical

phantasmagoric

dreamlike

unreal

surrealism

fantastic

cardboard

airy

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Surreal, primitive, impressionistic, whatever.

It's almost surreal.

Surreal?

Sha-dy! This is totally shady. It's beyond shady, it's surreal.

There was a certain surreal quality to it.

Traffic was surreal.

You've made everything totally surreal now.

It seems so. surreal, doesn't it?

This is so surreal.

Well, Beanie, it's been...surreal.

Well it's a little surreal, I guess.

No, what happened with the doctors was surreal.

That was.. surreal.

STARTING WITH A RELATIVELY SIMPLE IDEA, KAFKA PLUNGES US IN AN INCOHERENT, ABSURD AND SURREAL WORLD.

Oh, Michelle, that's so abstract, so surreal.

These stories seem surreal, almost unbelievable.

It's getting totally surreal.

That was surreal.

They'll buy into that because it's surreal.

The world has taken a turn for the surreal.

When it finally happened, it all felt surreal.

Jack Cardiff, who cut his teeth shooting Technicolor travelogues had a renegade spirit that complimented Powell's surreal style.

Surreal but. but nice.

Surreal. but nice.

Dead leaves, the wood, Jobourg. it's becoming surreal!

Even more surreal than that. is Mr Martinaud going back home in a hurry!

So, a certain surreal symmetry, you'd have to say, prevailed there in the end.

Surreal but, um- but nice.

Surreal. but nice. Thank you.

It does strike me as, well, surreal that I'm allowed to see you naked.

It's called surreal.

News and current affairs

The surreal environment, the amazing chess turns, and the Cold War backdrop made Fischer one of the most famous people in the world that summer.

So today's public debates have a somewhat surreal character, because the programs on which the candidates will stake their campaigns are still not developed.

For close followers of the Syrian conflict, tracking key reporters and opposition representatives on Twitter can be a surreal experience.

Thus, recent trade negotiations have a surreal air about them, because, whatever their outcome, ultimately cotton subsidies will have to go.

Indeed, ignorance about what is actually at risk makes debates about the right formula for capital buffers surreal.

The surreal nature of this gathering reflects the increasingly bizarre nature of Putin's regime.

Some viewers are not persuaded of the film's accuracy, or are troubled by the occasionally surreal character of the film-within-a-film structure adopted by the director.

Indeed, investment bankers transformed stock markets into a surreal circus.