| 单词 | surreal |
| 释义 | surreal (once / 4247 pages) adj If you see a goldfish fly out of a melting clock and offer you tango lessons, you’re having a surreal experience! Either that or you’re asleep and dreaming. Things that are surreal combine unrelated elements to create a bizarre scene. The adjective surreal comes from Surrealism, a movement that produced films, writing, painting, and other art forms that often contained irrational, disjointed images. So, surreal describes something that’s a bizarre mix of elements, often jarring and seemingly nonsensical. Images can be surreal, like the melting clocks in Salvador Dali's paintings, but so can strange, dream-like moments in everyday life. WORD FAMILYsurreal: surrealism, surreally+/surrealism: surrealisms, surrealistic/surrealistic: surrealistically USAGE EXAMPLESChad shows up, which is a surreal moment. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) “To see where I started and to see where we’re ending with our last game in the Rose Bowl is surreal,” Golden said. Los Angeles Times(Jan 01, 2017) From then on, slightly abstract, sometimes surreal touches are added to this realistic backdrop. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1adj characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature Syn phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, surrealistic unrealistic not realistic 2adj resembling a dream as irrational and surreal as a dream Syn dreamlike unreal not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary |
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