Crossword clues for surreal
surreal
- Almost certain Lear's 'nonsense' is this
- Like a dream
- Bizarre, associating Capone with English county briefly
- Bizarre posh and expensive car covered in cork
- Involving fantastical imagery
- United, king and queen stamp about - bizarre
- Hard to explain
- Like Dali's style
- Inexplicably strange
- Former French franc fractions
- Like Max Ernst's art
- Like a Dali painting
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1936, back-formation from surrealism or surrealist. Related: Surreally.
Wiktionary
a. Resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous n. (context math English) surreal number
WordNet
adj. characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature" [syn: phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, surrealistic]
resembling a dream; "night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality"; "as irrational and surreal as a dream" [syn: dreamlike]
Wikipedia
Surreal may refer to:
- Anything related to or characteristic of Surrealism, a movement in philosophy and art
- "Surreal" (song), a 2000 song by Ayumi Hamasaki
- Surreal (album), an album by Man Raze
- Surreal humour, a common aspect of humor
- Surreal numbers, a superset of the real numbers in mathematics
- Surreal Software, an American video game studio
- Surreal, the name of a Nintendo 64 emulator for the Xbox
"Surreal" (stylized as "SURREAL") is a song by Japanese recording artist Ayumi Hamasaki, taken from her third studio album Duty (2000). It was written by Hamasaki and produced by Max Matsuura. The song is a rock with elements of alternative rock. "Surreal" describes Hamasaki's madness and sense of confusion, while the themes of "Surreal" are based on Hamasaki's concept of loneliness, chaos, confusion, and the burden of her responsibilities, aimed mostly towards her public image as an recording artist. It was released as the fourth single from the album on 27 September 2000 by Avex Trax and Avex Taiwan.
Critical reception towards "Surreal" has been positive; majority of the critics commended the song writing and musical delivery, and highlighted it as an album and career stand out track. In Japan, "Surreal" became her sixth number one on the Oricon Singles Chart, and also reached the top spot on the Japanese Count Down TV chart. "Surreal" was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for shipments of 250,000 units. Released as a DVD Single in December 2000, it reached number three on the Oricon DVD Chart.
The accompanying music video was directed by Wataru Takeishi, featuring Hamasaki walking along a beach front. With mysterious lighting hovering over several objects, she enters a jungle-like room to find a clone of herself; the clone wears the same outfit for the Duty and "Surreal" photo shoot. "Surreal" has been included on several concert tours and New Year Countdown shows held and hosted by Hamasaki, and has featured on majority of her greatest hits compilations.
Surreal is the debut album from UK alternative rock band Man Raze. The album was written over a two-year period from 2004-2006 and recorded during April 2006 in Dublin in only two weeks. It features the singles "Skin Crawl" and "Turn It Up". The album was released in the USA on June 3, 2008. The UK Edition featuring a 5 track bonus disc is available from December 1, 2008.
Usage examples of "surreal".
Talking with him while he was in his enchanted form was positively surreal and a graphic reminder of the sort of world Brewster had wound up in.
The great prison spread out in a flat valley below them, brilliantly illuminated by the yellow glare of overhead lights, as surreal an industrial confection as a giant oil refinery.
The pearlescent glow had returned, giving an almost surreal aspect to this part of their journey.
As they passed the first shrouded alcove, Langdon felt taut, like a contestant on some surreal game show.
White water clattering stepwise down a granite slope, out of the mist - it was surreal.
DOOM PATROL is less a surreal fantasy than it is a naturalistic rendering of our supersaturated cultural space.
The light strengthened, and at length, trembling with synesthesia, Tahquil stepped from the cave-mouth into the open air of a surreal landscape.
Tree branches were twined in telephone lines that drooped asin a surreal work of art.
The surreal, Daliesque events of this particular night are forever seared on my consciousness.
He blinked several times to bring the surreal, Salvador Daliesque world into focus.
When the stylus fired a coherent beam of mesons at the border, the razor wire of disrupted graphs sliced fragments of their own surreal dimensions from the knot of virtual quarks and gluons making up each meson, and it was possible to exploit coherence effects to make some of these fragments act in unison to modify the border itself.
Their skeletal heads and sharp antlers added a surreal touch to the scene.
The smaller, more lithe dinosaurs that ran or stalked through the undergrowth would have seemed surreal: There was nothing like these bipedal runners in human times.
Shaman and Goddess paintings that have appeared on various posters, notecards and calendars -- surreal collages of images in swirling earth tones that seem to grow in complexity, the longer one studies them.
Figures locked in a macabre embrace, shadows and slivers of moonlight splashing them in surreal lighting.