surreal (redirected from surreally)

sur·re·al  (s-rl)

adj.

1. Having qualities attributed to or associated with surrealism: "Even with most facilities shut down ... a few mavericks managed to slip into the park to sample the almost surreal emptiness before the shutdown ended." (Peter H. King).

2. Having an oddly dreamlike quality.

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[Back-formation from surrealism.]

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sur·real·ly adv.

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surreal

Adjective

very strange or dreamlike; bizarre

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	surreal - characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature" phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, surrealistic unrealistic - not realistic; "unrealistic expectations"; "prices at unrealistic high levels"
	2.	surreal - resembling a dream; "night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality"; "as irrational and surreal as a dream" dreamlike unreal - not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary; "this conversation is getting more and more unreal"; "the fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy"; "the unreal world of advertising art"