surrealist
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6.8
- adjective
- /səˈrɪəlɪst/
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surrealista
- With Enter the Void, Noe created a surrealist death odyssey with day-glo colors.
- surrealist aesthetic
- surrealist poet
- surrealist painting
It sort of got this like magical, quite dark and surrealist toned to it.
- It sort of got this like magical, quite dark and surrealist toned to it.
- But I can tell you this, it is one of the most surrealist things I've ever done in my life.
- OK, but that part where I was asked to condemn Putin, but instead I improvised a surrealist slam poem about Hillary's e-mail server nailed it.
- It was like a tone I hadn't seen you in before, like surrealist.
Examples
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He's got some nice surrealist prints in frames.
Fiction book (2002) -
Hey, what do you say we check out this surrealist photography exhibit at the art museum this weekend?
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The twenty pieces on view were all very surrealist in their design.
Blog text (6) -
But I can tell you this, it is one of the most surrealist things I've ever done in my life.
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Evans contributed three photographs to this second exhibition, which is often credited with introducing surrealist art to a wider American audience.
Academic text (2017) -
Swing music, kaleidoscopic imagery, and intentionally surrealist environments are the only good things to ever come.
Blog text (17) -
But it is completely on par with the dense surrealist streak that the band's music and video envelop.
Blog text (20) -
Sometimes the artifact page resembled a surrealist construct or collage.
Fiction book (1991) -
In her turn, Carter used the surrealist technique as a generative principle in her unexpected crossing of styles, texts, genres, and traditions.
Academic text (2016) -
The artist's latest exhibit features surrealist paintings that distort reality and challenge perception.
Synonyms
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7.0
Strange like a dream and not real
28
4.2
Not real, like something from a dream
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3.4
Feels soft, gentle and romantic, like a dream
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8.7
Looks and feels strange and dreamlike, often with bright changing colors
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5.7
Having a calm, unreal quality as if you are half asleep
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7.7
Having very bright colors and strange, swirling patterns
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7.9
Showing strange, dreamlike images and unreal combinations
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9.9
Something that looks strange and like a vivid dream
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9.9
Looks like a strange dream with changing images
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9.9
A frightening, unfair situation with confusing rules and endless paperwork
Having a quality like a dream or a ghost that seems unreal
Being unreal and like a dream
Not showing things as they are in real life, often like a dream
Showing very strange dreamlike scenes with bright melting colors
Antonyms
How Surreal
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Surrealist as an adjective comes from the same roots sur- ('beyond') and real ('what is real'), and from the art name 'surrealism'. That's why something called surrealist feels strange or dreamlike, as if it is 'beyond the real'.