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sur·re·al

(sə-rē′əl)
adj.
1. Having qualities attributed to or associated with surrealism: "Even with most facilities shut down ... a few mavericks managed to slip into the park to sample the almost surreal emptiness before the shutdown ended." (Peter H. King).
2. Having an oddly dreamlike quality.

[Back-formation from surrealism.]

sur′re·al′i·ty (-ăl′ĭ-tē) n.
sur·re′al·ly adv.
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surreally

(səˈrɪːəlɪ)
adv
in a surreal manner
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Anyone who can produce real tears while surreally discussing the abomination of turning cucumbers into pickles is just a bit special.
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We had polar-necked folkies singing about no sex before marriage, a trio of priests kicking each other up the caboose and a flying nun bursting surreally into the main plot-line.
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On quietly surfaced and trafficked roads, like those chosen for the car's European launch around Nice in a sunny south of France, the e-Niro is almost surreally hushed and rides with the controlled firmness needed to keep the weight of all those batteries in check.
Not so Vic and Bob though, the pair's surreally silly slapstick still proving as audience-splittingly nonsensical on the current resurrection of Big Night Out (BBC2) as it was nearly 30 years ago.
Yet Mourinho surreally chose to start three central defenders and that early team news rumour of Scott McTominay, which felt like a bizarre conspiracy, turned out to be true.
Salami-colored resin fills in the wound left by the breast's amputation; the breast itself appears surreally on the boy's back.
Fortunately for Noel James though - and unbeknownst to the judges - he already something of a legend on the Welsh club circuit thanks to his surreally silly stand-up routines.
For all God's reason we are surreally here, we are grateful.
What happened on October 10 is that the US men's team was knocked out of World Cup qualifying thanks to an almost surreally meek performance against Trinidad and Tobago, previously the worst team in the CONCACAF conference for teams from North and Central America and the Caribbean.
Sometimes on her walks she surreally meets her ten-year-old self and other times, her 23-year-old self.
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