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Surreal vs Earthen - What's the difference?

surreal | earthen |

As adjectives the difference between surreal and earthen

is that surreal is resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous while earthen is made of earth or mud.

As a noun surreal

is (math) surreal number.

surreal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Resembling a dream: fantastic and incongruous

    • Related terms

    * real

    Derived terms

    * surrealism * surrealist * surreality * surreally * surreal number

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (math) surreal number
    • ----

    earthen

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made of earth or mud.
  • * 1826, James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
    • A hundred earthen dwellings stood on the margin of the lake...
  • Made of clay (especially said of pottery).
  • * 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation
    • ... the Godfathers and Godmothers follow into the midst of the Church, where there is a small table ready set, and on it an earthen pot ful of warme water, ...

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