surreal
adjectivenounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//səˈɹiː(.ə)l//
- United Kingdom//syːˈɹiː(.ə)l//
Resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous.
adjective
- 1
Resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous.
surreal picture/sound/art
a surreal experience
The movie had a dreamlike, surreal atmosphere.
Three weeks after the second Time meltdown cover, one day after Leonard Cohen died, Donald Trump pulled off one of the greatest upsets in American political history. That’s when 2016 went from being a bad dream to full-on waking nightmare, one that’s just gotten worse and worse, and more and more surreal.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super- Old French sur- French sur- Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís Proto-Italic *reis Classical Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin reālisder. Old French reel Middle French real French réel Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)bor. Latin -ismusbor. French -isme French réalisme French surréalismebor. English surrealismbf. English surreal A back-formation from surrealism, equivalent to sur- + real.
noun
- 1
A surreal number.
Forms
- plural
- surreals
- comparative
- more surreal
- superlative
- most surreal
surreal · Resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous.
surrender · To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.surrogate · A substitute (usually of a person, position or role).surround · To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all…