Meaning & use
Surrealistic
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Having a bizarre, dreamlike quality, as if disconnected from reality, often associated with the surrealist art movement.
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The film's surrealistic imagery of melting clocks and floating figures unsettled audiences.
Waking up in a foreign airport at 3 a.m. felt surrealistic.
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The word derives from Surrealism, the 20th-century art and literary movement led by figures like Salvador Dalí and André Breton.
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