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Surreal Common

Origin: Latin suffix -al

Surreal has 4 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

surreal number

"The mathematician explained that a surreal number could be constructed from any two previously defined numbers to fill gaps in the real number line."

Adjective
1

characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions

"a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"

"the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature"

2

resembling a dream

"night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality"

"as irrational and surreal as a dream"

3

Resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous

"The surreal sight of neon fish swimming through the dusty air made it feel like I was trapped in someone else's vivid dream."

Example Sentences
"a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows" adjective
"the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature" adjective
"night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality" adjective
"as irrational and surreal as a dream" adjective
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Rhyming Words
eal feal leal neal veal zeal meal weal teal deal peal heal beal real seal ileal ideal aneal uveal zoeal
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