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Definition of surreal adjective from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

surreal

adjective

NAmE//səˈril//

, NAmE//səˈriəl//

(less frequent surrealistic)

very strange; more like a dream than reality, with ideas and images mixed together in a strange way surreal images The play was a surreal mix of fact and fantasy.

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