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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