surreal
1. resembling a dream
- night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality
- as irrational and surreal as a dream
• Syn:
dreamlike
• Similar to:
unreal
2. characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions
- "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys
- the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature
• Syn:
phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, surrealistic
• Similar to:
unrealistic
• Derivationally related forms:
surrealism (for: surrealistic), phantasmagoria (for: phantasmagorical), phantasmagoria (for: phantasmagoric)
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