[U] a 20th century style and movement in art and literature in which images and events that are not connected are put together in a strange or impossible way, like a dream, to try to express what is happening deep in the mind
surrealist adjective [usuallybeforenoun]:
a surrealist painter / painting
surrealist noun:
the surrealist Salvador Dali
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