🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

超现实的

Pronunciation / Transliteration: chāoxiànshí de

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Surreal/səˈriːəl/
adjectiveCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #4500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这个场景有一种超现实的美感。"

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2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; bizarrely uncanny or fantastical.

    "Walking through the empty neon-lit city at 3 AM felt completely surreal."
  2. 2

    Relating to or characteristic of the artistic movement surrealism, which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind.

    "The gallery featured a stunning collection of surreal paintings by Salvador Dalí."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the French word 'surréel', coined in the early 1920s by poet Guillaume Apollinaire. The term combines the French prefix 'sur-' (meaning 'above' or 'beyond') with 'réel' (meaning 'real'), later becoming the foundation of the Surrealist artistic and literary movement initiated by André Breton to express the subconscious mind.

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