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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to surrealism.
- adjective Having an oddly dreamlike or unreal quality.
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- adjective Describing something that is
surreal .
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- adjective characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions
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Examples
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I've seen it described as surrealistic and as an art film.
Archive 2007-09-01 Divers 2007
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I've seen it described as surrealistic and as an art film.
The Man with a Movie Camera Divers 2007
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The end result often produces what can best be described as surrealistic imagery.
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Her stories display only a kind of surrealistic whimsy that I, for one, find mostly cloying.
Experimental Fiction 2010
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But then I found that the first person to call Green Acres "surrealistic" was probably Eddie Albert himself, in a New York Times article from near the end of the show's first season.
The First Accusations of Surrealism Jaime J. Weinman 2009
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It ` s kind of surrealistic is the best way to put it, A.J., but I ` m just not surprised.
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And I just think it's a really odd, kind of surrealistic decision.
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We all have some questions about Old White Haired Dude but Barack Hussein Obama as President is still a kind of surrealistic joke.
Obama and McCain tied in a new poll. I attribute that to the attacks on Palin, not the Palin choice per se. And why I haven't been submitted to polls. Ann Althouse 2008
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Her glossy black pubis parted like the curtain at a theater, gradually revealing a stage set-architectonic, kind of surrealistic, and as rosy as a classical dawn.
Villa Incognito Robbins, Tom 2003
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I have also always been attracted to lyrics that are visual, kind of surrealistic and trippy.
PegasusNews.com stories Sarah Blaskovich 2010
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