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What is "surrealistic"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
surrealistic
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A parody, a surrealistic sculpture in green slime.
▪ And the rooms pull a few surrealistic tricks with their architecture.
▪ Earlier, an almost surrealistic comic chaos attended royal occasions.
▪ If the Marx Brothers had made a surrealistic comedy while on downers, this would be it.
▪ It was bizarre, surrealistic, a little enclave of cancer patients in a noisy, crowded bar.
▪ Our best guess is that the earthquake takes on a surrealistic aspect; it is certainly trivialized.
▪ The pupils thought he'd been brought in specially for their benefit and turned up the next week with more surrealistic pieces.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
surrealistic

1930, from surrealist (see surrealism) + -ic.

Wiktionary
surrealistic

a. surreal.

WordNet
surrealistic

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, surreal]

Usage examples of "surrealistic".

The aircraft circled the island, treating the passengers to a vista of snowy white beaches and water so clear that each detail of the reefs and deeps were whorled and smeared below the surface like some vast surrealistic painting.

The increasing ability to alter weather, the development of new energy sources, new materials (some of them almost surrealistic in their properties), new transportation means, new foods (not only from the sea, but from huge hydroponic food-growing factories)--all these only begin to hint at the nature of the accelerating changes that lie ahead.

As Rachel gazed down through the webbed flooring, she felt like she was crossing a string bridge suspended over a surrealistic fractalized landscape.

Like the interior of some surrealistic palace built by a mad King, the whole scene was pricked out with the jewels of billions of silent glow-worms dreaming sapphire dreams.

Angie had looked out earlier, and she knew what there was to see, and could imagine how it appeared now with darkness falling: The surrealistic, slightly concave plain of steel and glass stretching away to right and left and up and down, vanishing indeterminately behind wreaths of darkening fog before the end of it became visible in any direction.

I switched to radar vision, and found I was looking down to a murky, surrealistic world, with a shattered, twisted surface.