Meaning & use
surreal
Having a strange, dreamlike quality that feels unreal or bizarre.
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Winning the award felt surreal, like something happening to someone else.
The artist's surreal paintings combined ordinary objects in impossible, dreamlike ways.
A note on using this word
Surreal originates from the Surrealism art movement, which depicted irrational, dream-inspired imagery, and is now used for any strange or hard-to-believe experience.
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