SURREAL

dreamlike, surreal

(adjective) resembling a dream; “night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality”; “as irrational and surreal as a dream”

phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, surreal, surrealistic

(adjective) characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; “a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows”--J.C.Powys; “the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

surreal (comparative more surreal, superlative most surreal)

Resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous

Noun

surreal (plural surreals)

(math) surreal number

Anagrams

• Rurales, serrula

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

11 June 2025

LIGHT

(adjective) having relatively few calories; “diet cola”; “light (or lite) beer”; “lite (or light) mayonnaise”; “a low-cal diet”


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Coffee Trivia

The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.

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