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
  • That’s a nightmarish output compared to the 87 catches, 1,282 yards and 10 touchdowns from his rookie season in 2024, especially as the Jaguars’ offense improved across the board around him.
    — The Athletic NFL Staff, New York Times, 20 July 2026
  • Their interaction precedes one of the film’s most nightmarish moments, involving a mixture of practical and special effects that Patel compares to An American Werewolf in London.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 20 July 2026
Definition of nightmarish
Adjective
  • Four-nil down at half-time, Mbappe started a ridiculous comeback.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 19 July 2026
  • In the face of climate change, such woo woo aphorisms seem ridiculous, naive, and cruel.
    — Josh Fox, IndieWire, 17 July 2026
Definition of ridiculous
Adjective
  • Sadly, in discouraging all the phantom agonies, FIFA inadvertently seems to have done away with the equally farcical phenomenon that is Magic Spray®.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 17 July 2026
  • That’s a little too farcical for the moment, and the final cut lands more in a place of domineering intrigue.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 13 July 2026
Definition of farcical
Adjective
  • The movie itself is strange — a collection of six surreal shorts cobbled together to look like the cable-access and PBS fare Frost grew up on.
    — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2026
  • The feeling is surreal, because the core of ‘Saiyaara’ was always the fact that a song has the power to take you back to a moment, bring back a memory… bring back love.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 July 2026
Definition of surreal
Adjective
  • Those who value and respect America but couldn’t find their way through the Kafkaesque immigration system deserve a chance to rectify their situation.
    — Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 10 Aug. 2025
  • In a Kafkaesque twist, Trump’s chart assigns Eswatini the lowest possible (10 percent) reciprocal tariff, despite the fact the nation applies the same external tariffs as Lesotho.
    — Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
Definition of Kafkaesque
Adjective
  • Yes, Missouri still played a tough schedule because of their conference games, but to act as though the Big Ten only won a National Championship because of non-conference schedules is ludicrous.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2026
  • In this World Cup, referees have often stopped the match on multiple occasions to check VAR for offside, sometimes issuing rulings that fans and teams consider ludicrous.
    — Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 17 July 2026
Definition of ludicrous
Adjective
  • The film has a very avant-garde style, with images melting into one another to to give the horrific tale a hazy, dreamlike logic.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 1 July 2026
  • As well as playing with the mood of real locales, the new season also allowed for an expansion of the metaphysical space known as ‘The Portal,’ a dreamlike environment which people who have ingested the Blue Angel mushroom are all connected to, and though it, even to each other.
    — Kambole Campbell, Variety, 25 June 2026
Definition of dreamlike
Adjective
  • Track Pants Inspired by Jennifer Lawrence My closet has become laughable, and the fault lies with Jennifer Lawrence.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
  • Such statements will be laughable to investors of the future, says Jeremy Grantham, co-founder of investment giant GMO.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 8 July 2026
Definition of laughable
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