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Meanings of surreal in anglès

Characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions.

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        Resembling a dream.

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              Examples for "dreamlike"
              Examples for "dreamlike"
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              LockerRoom: Do you know what, but Saturday morning had a dreamlike quality.
              The Irish Times
              2
              Yesterday had been a little dreamlike-nightmare-like-buttodaythe reality was setting in.
              Storm Front
              3
              Nina's whole experience in the spirit-world held a dreamlike quality for her.
              The Dreaming Place
              4
              Absurd as in non-rational, dreamlike, an escape from what passes for reality.
              The Guardian
              5
              It is a dreamlike effect, collapsing the distinction between inside and outside.
              The Guardian
              Usage of surreal in anglès
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              What you need to know about Courtney SHE called her nomination 'surreal'.
              News.com.au
              2
              Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize She said receiving the Goldman Prize was surreal.
              Radio NZ
              3
              Which made it the most surreal development yet of his young presidency.
              Wired
              4
              That's an area that's beautiful and almost surreal part of wine experience.
              Radio NZ
              5
              The surreal reality that conceived these monsters was extreme in ideology: chaotic.
              The South African
              6
              He said it had the whole situation had been surreal and frightening.
              Radio NZ
              7
              Weather forecasters view the world in a strange, surreal sort of way.
              The Irish Times
              8
              I'm absolutely cacking myself. Williams found a surreal way to protect herself.
              The Guardian
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              It surpassed the most surreal accounts he'd heard of third-world law enforcement.
              Zeitoun
              10
              Doctor Who has visited many strange and surreal places across the decades.
              The Irish Times
              11
              It was just surreal being in D.C. And being in this situation.
              The new yorker
              12
              America At Large: The Winter Wonderland atmosphere only made it more surreal.
              The Irish Times
              13
              The work is too skewed and surreal to spring from everyday experience.
              The Irish Times
              14
              Another reason to be glad she was qualified, I thought, feeling surreal.
              Dangerous Women
              15
              Every experience up to that point had been wonderfully and indescribably surreal.
              Here's the deal: don't touch me
              16
              A match behind closed doors at Anfield is just a surreal experience.
              BBC
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