Definition: resembling a dream
Usage: night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality; as irrational and surreal as a dream
Similar words: unreal
Definition: not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary
Usage: this conversation is getting more and more unreal; the fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy; the unreal world of advertising art
Synonyms: surreal, surrealistic, phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical
Definition: characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions
Usage: a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows--J.C.Powys; the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature
Similar words: unrealistic
Definition: not realistic
Usage: unrealistic expectations; prices at unrealistic high levels