Associations to the word «Surreal»

Wiktionary

SURREAL, adjective. Resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous
SURREAL, noun. (math) surreal number
SURREAL NUMBER, noun. (math) Any of a class of numbers containing the real numbers as well as infinite and infinitesimal numbers, respectively larger or smaller in absolute value than any positive real number.
SURREAL NUMBERS, noun. Plural of surreal number

Dictionary definition

SURREAL, 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".
SURREAL, adjective. Resembling a dream; "night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality"; "as irrational and surreal as a dream".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats