surreal

English

Etymology

Back-formation from surrealism.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːl

Adjective

surreal (comparative more surreal, superlative most surreal)

1. Resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous

Derived terms

Derived terms

• surrealism
• surrealist
• surreality

• surreally
• surreal number

Related terms

• real

Translations

having the intense reality of a dream

• Catalan: surrealista
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (of mood) 玄妙 (zh) (xuánmiào), (of genre) 超現實的／超现实的, 超现实的 (chāoxiànshí de)

• Dutch: surreëel (nl), bovenwerkelijk
• Finnish: epätodellinen
• Galician: surrealista
• German: surreal (de)
• Greek: σουρεαλιστικός (el) m (sourealistikós) (sourealistikós), υπερρεαλιστικός (el) m (yperrealistikós)
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• Hebrew: הזוי m, הזויה f
• Japanese: シュール (ja) (shūru)
• Polish: surrealistyczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: surreal
• Romanian: suprareal (ro) m
• Scottish Gaelic: os-fhìreach
• Spanish: surrealista
• Swedish: overklig (sv), drömsk (sv)
• Tagalog: kubtunay

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Noun

surreal (plural surreals)

1. (mathematics) surreal number

Anagrams

• Rurales, serrula

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German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

surreal (comparative surrealer, superlative am surrealsten)

1. surreal

Further reading

• “surreal” in Duden online

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Portuguese

Adjective

1. surreal

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Spanish

Adjective

surreal m or f (masculine and feminine plural surreales)

1. surreal