Shinichirō Watanabe once considered making an anime about Christopher Columbus, but came to the conclusion that not even anime was expressive enough to properly portray the surreal greatness of Columbus's exploits.
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Surreal
Synonyms for "surreal" (10 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Strong matches (3)
Adjective(2 words)
Related words (5)
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1 entriesderived
5 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
25 translations across 20 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- сюрреалистичен adj (fantastic and incongruous)
Catalan
1 entries- surrealista adj (fantastic and incongruous)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 玄妙 adj (fantastic and incongruous)
- 超現實的 /超现实的 adj (fantastic and incongruous)
Dutch
2 entries- bovenwerkelijk adj (fantastic and incongruous)
- surreëel adj (fantastic and incongruous)
Finnish
1 entries- epätodellinen adj (fantastic and incongruous)
French
1 entries- surréel adj (fantastic and incongruous)
Galician
1 entries- surrealista adj (fantastic and incongruous)
German
1 entries- surreal adj (fantastic and incongruous)
Greek
2 entries- σουρεαλιστικός adj (fantastic and incongruous)
- υπερρεαλιστικός adj (fantastic and incongruous)
Hebrew
1 entries- הזוי adj (fantastic and incongruous)
Japanese
2 entries- シュール adj (fantastic and incongruous)
- 超現実的 adj (fantastic and incongruous)
Kazakh
1 entries- сюрреалистік adj (fantastic and incongruous)
Polish
1 entries- surrealistyczny adj (fantastic and incongruous)
Portuguese
1 entries- surreal adj (fantastic and incongruous)
Romanian
1 entries- suprareal adj (fantastic and incongruous)
Russian
1 entries- сюрреалисти́чный adj (fantastic and incongruous)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- os-fhìreach adj (fantastic and incongruous)
Spanish
1 entries- surrealista adj (fantastic and incongruous)
Swedish
2 entries- drömsk adj (fantastic and incongruous)
- overklig adj (fantastic and incongruous)
Tagalog
1 entries- kubtunay adj (fantastic and incongruous)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
The Russian Ballet was surreal!
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It was kind of surreal.
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It was incredibly surreal.
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