surreal

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• UK, US: /səˈɹiː(.ə)l/
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• UK, US: /syːˈɹiː(.ə)l/
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• rhymes with -iːl
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• CMU ARPABET: S ER0 IY1 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super- Old French sur- French sur- Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh1-der. Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh1ís Proto-Italic *reis Classical Latin rēs Proto-Indo-European *h2el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Late Latin reālisder. Old French reel Middle French real French réel Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der. Latin -ismusbor. French -isme French réalisme French surréalismebor. English surrealismbf. English surreal A back-formation from surrealism, equivalent to sur- + real.

25 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: сюрреалистичен (sjurrealističen) — fantastic and incongruous
• Catalan: surrealista — fantastic and incongruous
• Chinese Mandarin: 玄妙 (xuánmiào) — fantastic and incongruous
• Chinese Mandarin: 超現實的 /超现实的 (chāoxiànshí de) — fantastic and incongruous
• Dutch: surreëel — fantastic and incongruous
• Dutch: bovenwerkelijk — fantastic and incongruous
• Finnish: epätodellinen — fantastic and incongruous
• French: surréel — fantastic and incongruous
• Galician: surrealista — fantastic and incongruous
• German: surreal — fantastic and incongruous
• Greek: σουρεαλιστικός (sourealistikós) — fantastic and incongruous
• Greek: υπερρεαλιστικός (yperrealistikós) — fantastic and incongruous
• Hebrew: הזוי — fantastic and incongruous
• Japanese: シュール (shūru) — fantastic and incongruous
• Japanese: 超現実的 (chōgenjitsuteki) — fantastic and incongruous
• Kazakh: сюрреалистік (sürrealistık) — fantastic and incongruous
• Polish: surrealistyczny — fantastic and incongruous
• Portuguese: surreal — fantastic and incongruous
• Romanian: suprareal — fantastic and incongruous
• Russian: сюрреалисти́чный (sjurrealistíčnyj) — fantastic and incongruous
• Scottish Gaelic: os-fhìreach — fantastic and incongruous
• Spanish: surrealista — fantastic and incongruous
• Swedish: overklig — fantastic and incongruous
• Swedish: drömsk — fantastic and incongruous
• Tagalog: kubtunay — fantastic and incongruous