Definitions for surreal

surreal sur·re·al

Spelling: [suh-ree-uh l, -reel]
IPA: /səˈri əl, -ˈril/

Surreal is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in surreal (aelrrsu).

Definitions for surreal

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of surrealism, an artistic and literary style; surrealistic.
  2. having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic:

Origin of surreal

1935-40; back formation from surrealism; see sur-1, real1

Examples for surreal

Sacks discusses this surreal experience with great humor, but he makes no bones about his misgivings.

The artists are no stranger to the whimsical and the surreal.

Soraya Chemaly already predicted this particularly “surreal” argument in her initial report on ectogenesis.

That must be surreal to hear those things from big celebrities.

The insurrectionists seemed actors in a surreal episode of revolutionary play-acting in which the curtain was about to fall.

It must be surreal to be working on a movie in the Rocky franchise and have Sylvester Stallone actually be there.

I spent a surreal evening watching all 85 episodes and gathered the best of the worst big ideas from the firearm luminaries.

There followed a series of rooms and scenes, showing various horrors or surreal scenes.

A slow, surreal tide of deformation has appeared throughout the city.

Was that surreal to you, to see the story playing out and to see the characters with your own eyes in a private screening?

Word Value for surreal
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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