Surreal
Surreal adjective - Characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions.
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Synonyms for Surreal
Whimsical and surreal are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Whimsical" instead an adjective "Surreal".
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Related pairs
- fanciful and surreal
- fanciful and whimsical
- idiosyncratic and surreal
- idiosyncratic and whimsical
- eccentric and surreal
- eccentric and whimsical
- wild and surreal
- wild and whimsical
- grotesque and surreal
- grotesque and whimsical
- outlandish and surreal
- outlandish and whimsical
- queer and surreal
- queer and whimsical
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On the more whimsical and surreal A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Scooby Snacks would have an effect not unlike Popeye's spinach mentioned above by turning them into heroes at the least and a borderline Reality Warper at the most.
Source: Bottled Heroic Resolve - When Jim Davis retooled the strip in the late '80s to make it more "whimsical" and kid-oriented, the "relevant" references abruptly dropped off and the tone of the strip became more surreal...sometimes much more surreal.
Source: Earth Drift -
This 1969 ad for IHOP tries to be whimsical with its Moog synthesizer music, Chipmunk singing and footage of a family running in slow motion, but the execution is just disturbingly surreal.
Source: Nightmare Fuel / Advertising
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