SURREAL: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for SURREAL?

Need another word that means the same as “surreal”? Find 25 synonyms and 30 related words for “surreal” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Surreal” are: phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, surrealistic, dreamlike, zany, madcap, offbeat, quirky, outlandish, eccentric, idiosyncratic, ridiculous, nonsensical, crazy, absurd, insane, far out, fantastic, bizarre, peculiar, weird, odd, strange, cranky, freakish

Surreal as an Adjective

Definitions of "Surreal" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “surreal” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions–J.C.Powys.
• Resembling a dream.
• Having the qualities of surrealism; bizarre.
• Characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions.

Synonyms of "Surreal" as an adjective (25 Words)

absurd	Inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense. It may look absurd but having a treadmill desk could improve your attention span.
bizarre	Very strange or unusual. A bizarre situation.
cranky	Bad-tempered; irritable. A cranky scheme to pipe ground level ozone into the stratosphere.
crazy	Mad, especially as manifested in wild or aggressive behaviour. Crazy about cars and racing.
dreamlike	Resembling a dream. She snapped out of her dreamlike state.
eccentric	Not having a common center; not concentric. Eccentric circles.
fantastic	Of an extraordinary size or degree. Fantastic Halloween costumes.
far out	Being of a considerable distance or length.
freakish	Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual. A freakish combination of styles.
idiosyncratic	Relating to idiosyncrasy; peculiar or individual. She emerged as one of the great idiosyncratic talents of the nineties.
insane	(of an action or quality) characterized or caused by madness. Took insane risks behind the wheel.
madcap	Characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; (`brainish’ is archaic. Madcap escapades.
nonsensical	Having no intelligible meaning. A nonsensical argument.
odd	Beyond or deviating from the usual or expected. They lost a close fought game by the odd goal in five.
offbeat	Informal terms; strikingly unconventional. A rapid tempo is essential here otherwise we will not sense the offbeat hemiolas.
outlandish	Foreign or alien. Three wise outlandish kings.
peculiar	Slightly and indefinably unwell. Any attempt to explicate the theme is bound to run into peculiar difficulties.
phantasmagoric	Characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions–J.C.Powys. A great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows.
phantasmagorical	Characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions–J.C.Powys.
quirky	Informal terms; strikingly unconventional. Her sense of humour was decidedly quirky.
ridiculous	So unreasonable as to invite derision. It seems absolutely ridiculous that anyone would try to pull a stunt like this.
strange	Unaccustomed to or unfamiliar with. What a strange sense of humor she has.
surrealistic	Characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions.
weird	Strikingly odd or unusual. The three weird sisters.
zany	Amusingly unconventional and idiosyncratic. His zany humour.

Usage Examples of "Surreal" as an adjective

• The incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature.
• As irrational and surreal as a dream.
• A surreal mix of fact and fantasy.

Associations of "Surreal" (30 Words)

abstraction	The process of removing something, especially water from a river or other source. She sensed his momentary abstraction.
bizarre	Very strange or unusual. His behaviour became more and more bizarre.
creative	A person whose job involves creative work. Change unleashes people s creative energy.
creativeness	The ability to create.
daydream	Indulge in a daydream. She looked out the window daydreaming.
delusion	A mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea. What a capacity television has for delusion.
dream	Experience dreams during sleep. Her new man s an absolute dream.
dreamer	Someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations. A rebellious young dreamer.
dreamland	A pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination. She tries to lull herself into dreamland.
eerie	Strange and frightening. An eerie midnight howl.
envisage	Form a mental picture of (something not yet existing or known. The Rome Treaty envisaged free movement across frontiers.
escapism	An inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy. His alcohol problem was a form of escapism.
fancied	Formed or conceived by the imagination. A fancied wrong.
fanciful	Not based on fact; existing only in the imagination. The falsehood about some fanciful secret treaties.
fantasy	Fiction with a large amount of imagination in it. His researches had moved into the realms of fantasy.
fiction	A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact. They were supposed to be keeping up the fiction that they were happily married.
hallucination	An experience involving the apparent perception of something not present. He refused to believe that the angel was a hallucination.
hallucinatory	Of or resembling a hallucination. The bizarre hallucinatory dreams of fever.
illusory	Based on illusion; not real. She knew the safety of her room was illusory.
imagery	Visual images collectively. The film s religious imagery.
imaginary	(mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1. Chris had imaginary conversations with her.
imagination	The faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses. She was set in her ways and lacked imagination.
imagine	Suppose or assume. After Ned died everyone imagined that Mabel would move away.
megalomania	Obsession with the exercise of power.
paranoid	A person who is paranoid. Paranoid schizophrenia.
psychosis	A severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. The symptoms of psychosis.
reverie	A fanciful or impractical idea or theory. A knock on the door broke her reverie.
tale	A lie. A delightful children s tale.
visionary	Thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom. Visionary dreams.
visualize	Form a mental picture of something that is invisible or abstract. The radiologist can visualize the cancerous liver.