What's the difference between surreal and unreal?

Surreal


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Future Brown have connections in the fashion industry, last year soundtracking a surreal film for the brand Telfar.
  • (2) But now the document turns crazily surreal, like the pointless war itself.
  • (3) According to Deborah Mattinson, his pollster, Brown " loved slogans and believed them to be imbued with a mystical power capable of persuading the most intransigent voter", and therefore went a bundle on them – not least " A future fair for all ", the surreal dud with which Labour went to the country in 2010, following 2005's equally idiotic " forward not back ".
  • (4) The surreal air of calm surrounding Spain's bond market shows no signs of dissipating.
  • (5) But, such is the intensity and surreal nature of this situation, we are all experiencing an emotional journey of self-discovery that will change us – hopefully for the better – for ever.
  • (6) "It started out as surreal, then people joined in and it sort of faded a bit, but it seemed pretty heartfelt from Rodman's side," Simon Cockerell, a tour guide who attended the game, told Reuters.
  • (7) There is the very real, or perhaps surreal, prospect, of postal workers simultaneously downing tools (parking their trolleys) and subscribing a few hundred quid for Royal Mail shares.
  • (8) The show stars Berry as a jobbing actor with vaunting ambition who gets into surreal scrapes, with a supporting cast including Doon Mackichan as his agent and Robert Bathurst as his housemate.
  • (9) Platt: "But when you score a goal like that you just go outside yourself for a bit, everything is surreal.
  • (10) Others are said to be clinging on to the idea that Ukip remains a convenient means of taking votes from the Tories (witness the surreally complacent words of the Labour frontbencher Angela Eagle: “I’m not as worried as some might be about Ukip’s appeal to Labour voters.
  • (11) Most people were concerned about how many people had been killed but luckily enough there was no game on at the time and it was the middle of the afternoon and it was a surreal experience.
  • (12) Was it surreal seeing your brother, Boris Johnson , take much of the credit for organising the whole thing?
  • (13) Before the crash, the proposed solutions to Bradford’s problems sometimes entered the realms of the surreal.
  • (14) In recent weeks, during which I kept waiting for the phrase “THE TRIAL OF ROLF HARRIS” to stop sounding completely surreal (it didn’t), I have pondered them a lot.
  • (15) A man with a machine gun chatting to a protester about midgies might seem delightfully British, but it also emphasises the surrealness of Trident and how we resort to small talk because its destructive potential is so unfathomably big.
  • (16) The police had blocked the roads – they also told us they didn’t know much more than us, and it was all a bit surreal.
  • (17) The DNC, the Sanders campaign and the Clinton campaign have all been damaged by one of the most surreal political scandals in recent history.
  • (18) Surreal character comedy doesn’t do it justice, really.
  • (19) There's something oddly surreal about some of these images.
  • (20) So, again, we weren't kidding when we said this whole thing was going to be surreal for a variety of reasons, not all of them particularly fun or amusing.

Unreal


Definition:

  • (a.) Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maybe it’s all unreal, all the way down, the speeches, the photo opportunities?
  • (2) She was presented as something superhuman but also unreal, sanitised, infantilised; she was more than just a woman singing a song, she was an Ideal, a Symbol.
  • (3) Algeria deserved a better fate than an exit which inevitably will leave big regrets that they missed out on something monumental or unreal, but the national team left the Brazilian World Cup with sword in hand and head high.” In Germany most of the media were just thankful they had progressed.
  • (4) This earlier shadow, this yearning and refracted autobiography, places Ballard at the heart of fiction of the unreal.
  • (5) Overall, panic symptoms could be grouped into three categories: early symptoms--consisting of dyspnea, palpitations, chest discomfort, and hot flashes; intermediate symptoms--including shaking, choking, feelings of unreality, sweats, faintness, and dizziness; late symptoms-consisting of fear and paresthesias.
  • (6) It demonstrates a previously unrealized advantage of confocal optical microscopy.
  • (7) Protein separation has been achieved by electrical field-flow fractionation, a heretofore unrealized separation technique.
  • (8) And with that she clutches a bejewelled hand to what is famously the most unreal part of her anatomy.
  • (9) To be racing for the school, feeling unreal, light, weightless, powered by gut fear alone.
  • (10) It is unbelievable, it is almost unreal that we were able to come together so quickly to craft a compromise that both Democrats and Republicans can find a way to support and move forward,” said Democratic representative John Lewis, of Georgia, who was a leader from the civil rights era.
  • (11) Faced with this mutant telly genre masquerading as reality, soaps have become unreal just when we needed them to be otherwise.
  • (12) Although there was an initial tendency on the part of students to regard the exercise as 'unreal', they delighted in refining their communication skills and trying out their skills in problem solving.
  • (13) In a word: Hollyoaks has become Geordie Shore and The Only Way Is Essex – as unreal as its purported reality show counterparts.
  • (14) After about 10 days of regular triazolam they tended to develop panics and depression, felt unreal, and sometimes paranoid.
  • (15) But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.
  • (16) The amount of times he’s given the ball away is unreal.
  • (17) Eight normal subjects were studied in laboratory by the awakening technique, and the dream contents were rated by two judges according to nine scaled dimensions: unreality, participation of the dreamer, pleasantness, unpleasantness, verbal aggresivity, physical aggressivity, sexuality, sensoriality and time of reference in the dreamer's life.
  • (18) Budding fashion designers will certainly have a lot of potential products to toy with, some of which are so futuristic that they seem almost unreal.
  • (19) The commission president accused Johnson of painting an unreal picture of the EU for the British public and said he should return to Brussels, where he previously worked as a journalist, to see whether his claims chimed with “reality”.
  • (20) Computers have unrealized potential in investigation and clinical care.