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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"
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LockerRoom: Do you know what, but Saturday morning had a dreamlike quality.
The Irish Times
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Yesterday had been a little dreamlike-nightmare-like-buttodaythe reality was setting in.
Storm Front
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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
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Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize She said receiving the Goldman Prize was surreal.
Radio NZ
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Which made it the most surreal development yet of his young presidency.
Wired
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That's an area that's beautiful and almost surreal part of wine experience.
Radio NZ
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The surreal reality that conceived these monsters was extreme in ideology: chaotic.
The South African
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He said it had the whole situation had been surreal and frightening.
Radio NZ
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Weather forecasters view the world in a strange, surreal sort of way.
The Irish Times
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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
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It was just surreal being in D.C. And being in this situation.
The new yorker
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America At Large: The Winter Wonderland atmosphere only made it more surreal.
The Irish Times
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The work is too skewed and surreal to spring from everyday experience.
The Irish Times
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Another reason to be glad she was qualified, I thought, feeling surreal.
Dangerous Women
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Every experience up to that point had been wonderfully and indescribably surreal.
Here's the deal: don't touch me
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A match behind closed doors at Anfield is just a surreal experience.
BBC
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