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surreal

/səˈrɪəl/adjective

उच्चारण सरिअल

अतियथार्थवादी, स्वप्निल, विचित्र

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adjective
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    very strange; more like a dream than reality, with ideas and images mixed together in a strange way

    अतियथार्थवादी, स्वप्निल, विचित्र

    • It was a surreal experience to meet my hero.
    • Walking on the empty highway at dawn felt oddly surreal.
    • The empty stadium looked surreal in the early morning mist.
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    • Her paintings are surreal, full of floating clocks and talking trees.
    • It felt surreal to see my name on the merit list.

    Synonyms dreamlike bizarre weird unreal fantastic

    Opposite real ordinary normal realistic

◇Word family
surrealism nounsurrealist noun, adj.
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Keep the strange words together: surreal, bizarre, weird, uncanny, dreamlike, phantasmagorical (like a strange dream).

विचित्र के शब्द साथ याद रखिए: surreal, bizarre, weird, uncanny, dreamlike, phantasmagorical (अजीब सपने जैसा)।

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General knowledge

Art GK: Surrealism was an art movement of the 1920s that tried to show the unconscious mind and dreams; Salvador Dalí (known for 'The Persistence of Memory' with melting clocks) was a famous surrealist painter.

कला GK में Surrealism (अतियथार्थवाद) 1920 के दशक का कला आंदोलन था जिसने अचेतन मन और सपनों को दिखाने का प्रयास किया; Salvador Dalí (पिघलती घड़ियों वाली 'The Persistence of Memory' के लिए प्रसिद्ध) प्रसिद्ध अतियथार्थवादी चित्रकार थे।