(n) a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams
(adj) characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; --J.C.Powys, Syn. surrealistic, phantasmagorical, surreal, Example:a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows; the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature