" surreal "

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1: Popular usage has transformed the word "surreal" into litle more than a synonym for "weird", and so rendered it useless. I'll use "surrealistic" if a film (or any work of art) exhibits mannered mimicking of superficial aspects of the visual style of the original Surrealists between the wars (commonly, cribs from Dali, Magritte, Chirico, Bunuel or Cocteau). In all other cases I prefer more specific terms, like "dreamlike", "Nightmarish" or "Bunuelesque". I'd reserve "surrealist" for the output of members of recognized Surrealist groups.

  * e.g.,  ... Everything is so surreal. 

 [ "surreal" ]

1: a word so-many people who want to sound smart through around like a rag-doll

  * e.g.,  ... surreal actually means having an oddly dreamlike quality but tell that to every carriebien travel commercial EVER 

 [ "surreal" ]

1: when both your parents and the parents of a hot girl say its okay that your parents arent hoem when she comes over for a long time.

  * e.g.,  ... Betty is coming over later and no parents will be home. Its so surreal. 

 [ "surreal" ]

1: A popular UK based IRC Server,

  * e.g.,  ... lets go on surreal and have a laugh and call random people twat 

 [ "Surreal" ]

1: Surreal: Surreal defines something that is on the brink of being unexplainable. Something Surreal, or Surrealism, is what makes things in life different. It makes things stand out. It makes you think, “Is that possible?” Something surreal cannot be, or can almost not be, described.

  * e.g.,  ... Dude… Your painting looks so surreal. Its like fake but real… 

 [ "Surreal" ]

1: Having a dreamlike quality.

  * e.g.,  ... "Giraffes and wildebeest were recently sighted attempting to gain entry to a prototype cylindrical toaster left to dry on the roof of Prof. Marleson's New York apartment." 

 [ "surreality" ]

1:  Happenings that when intersected into one's own sphere of reality, strike oneself as surreal or fantastic.

  * e.g.,  ...  Meg's conversation with the Amway representative gave her a view into the surreality of vertical marketing schemes. 

 [ "surreality" ]

2:  A group's consensus reality as it appears to a non-involved individual or group, especially if profound differences exist between the two parties.

  * e.g.,  ...  Upon their first visit to the countryside, many urban-dwelling folk are amazed at the archaic surreality still embodied in rural America. 

 [ "surreally" ]

1: An word unbelievably, unimaginably good person, place, event or thing etc.

  * e.g.,  ... When I went to Europe for vacation, I had a surreally good time. There were so many ladies throwing themselves at me and well, you get the rest. 

 [ "Surreal" ]

1: The way ghetto people pronounce "Cereal."

  * e.g.,  ... "Momma, why can't I eat Kraft Mac N' Cheese for breakfast?" 

 [ "surrealize" ]

1: To imagine what is possible.

  * e.g.,  ... Doug the artist often likes to surrealize what his sculpture will look like prior to beginning work on it. 

 [ "surrealize" ]

2: The act of imagination.

  * e.g.,  ... (Active Form)- I am surrealizing my tired old apartment into a hip, happening pad. 

 [ "surrealize" ]

3: To create something as if out of nothing.

 [ "surrealize" ]

4: (In Active Form- "surrealizing")- fabricating something into reality, especially if done with little or no financial outlay, and/or resources.