surreal

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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about surreal

What does surreal mean?

surreal means "characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in surreal?

surreal has 2 syllables: sur-real. The stress falls on "real". In IPA it is /sɚˈil/.

What is another word for surreal?

Close synonyms include phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, surrealistic, dreamlike. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is surreal a common word?

surreal is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with surreal?

1 word rhymes with surreal. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.