Usually means: Dreamlike, bizarre, beyond normal reality.
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  1. surreal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. surreal: Merriam-Webster
  3. surreal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. surreal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. surreal, the surreal: Collins English Dictionary
  6. surreal: Vocabulary.com
  7. Surreal, surreal: Wordnik
  8. surreal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. surreal: Wiktionary
  10. surreal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. surreal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. surreal: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. surreal: Dictionary.com
  14. surreal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Surreal (album), Surreal (song), Surreal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. surreal: Rhymezone
  17. surreal, surreal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. surreal: FreeDictionary.org
  19. surreal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. surreal: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous
▸ noun:  (mathematics) surreal number

Similar:
dreamlike, surrealistic, phantasmagoric, unreal, unrealistic, dreamish, surrealish, nightmarish, fantastic, oneiric, more...

Opposite:
realistic, naturalistic, mundane

Types:
dreamlike, bizarre, absurd, fantastical, otherworldly, uncanny, hallucinatory, irrational, more...

Phrases:
surreal numbers, surreal number, Surreal humour, The Surreal Life, Surreal Software, more...

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Similar:
dreamlike, surrealistic, phantasmagoric, unreal, unrealistic, dreamish, surrealish, nightmarish, fantastic, oneiric, more...

Opposite:
realistic, naturalistic, mundane

Types:
dreamlike, bizarre, absurd, fantastical, otherworldly, uncanny, hallucinatory, irrational, more...

Phrases:
surreal numbers, surreal number, Surreal humour, The Surreal Life, Surreal Software, Surreal Estate, surreal life, opposite of surreal, special moment surreal, a surreal thing, more...

Colors:
    ultraviolet,     cerulean,     vermilion,     chartreuse,     amethyst, more...



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