Alice-in-Wonderland

adjective

Definition of Alice-in-Wonderlandnext
as in nightmarish

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Alice-in-Wonderland
  1. nightmarish
  2. ridiculous
  3. farcical
  4. surreal
  5. Kafkaesque
  6. ludicrous
  7. dreamlike
  8. laughable
Adjective
  • Quarterfinal Tuesday brought another somewhat nightmarish scenario for everyone except the true night owls.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • As Pattinson spends a long night trying to rescue his brother, the Safdies weave a nightmarish, impressionistic vision of New York that ranks among the most unsettling cinematic depictions of the city.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of nightmarish
Adjective
  • The student also claimed to have only brought the knife to school to play a game with his friends with the goal being to see who could sneak the most ridiculous item on campus.
    — Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026
  • What are the odds that the same team could both win and lose thoroughly ridiculous 10-9 games in the same week?
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of ridiculous
Adjective
  • Palace had a four-vs-three overload and scored in farcical circumstances.
    — Stuart James, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • This deliciously farcical film adaptation features an all-star cast.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 26 Aug. 2026
Definition of farcical
Adjective
  • The Hanna-Barbera cat and mouse — formerly a throwaway bunch of cartoons, now a ‘franchise’ — are all about triflingly menial disputes taken to absurd heights, leading to surreal sight gags and baroque violence.
    — Caspar Salmon, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
  • The issue lingered late into the week, including the surreal spectacle of the SEC battling LSU in multiple courtrooms.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of surreal
Adjective
  • For the average soccer fan, the quest for 2026 World Cup tickets started last year when FIFA opened its Kafkaesque lottery system.
    — Natalie B. Compton, Washington Post, 5 June 2026
  • Much of the book hovers on the edge of reality before diving into moments of Kafkaesque disorder.
    — Via Catapult, Literary Hub, 5 June 2026
Definition of Kafkaesque
Adjective
  • In many cases, the presence of AI in the classroom is a solution in search of a problem — just like the ludicrous, pointless innovations by the Laputan scientists.
    — Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026
  • He's got big plans for Season 3 Popular captions for the meme joke about male authority figures like dads and uncles ordering the viewer to do ludicrous tasks.
    — Owen Carry, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of ludicrous
Adjective
  • The film’s score, composed by Emile Mosseri, floats in and out, naturally building a dreamlike state.
    — Cortlyn Kelly, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Sinéty developed a knack for finding within quotidian domestic and village scenes—a woman brushing her hair, a picnic in the sun—a dreamlike sense of mystery.
    — Felix Bazalgette, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of dreamlike
Adjective
  • The placement feels resonant, since Boorman was always operating between poles of glinting victory and laughable failure.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Coyote first hoodwinks and then forces Kevin into his lawsuit plans, taking Acme to task in a way the corporation, confident in its imperviousness, finds laughable.
    — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of laughable
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