Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or characterized by hallucination.
- adj. Inducing hallucination.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Partaking of or producing hallucination.
Wiktionary
- adj. Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Partaking of, having the character of, or tending to produce, hallucinations.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. characterized by or characteristic of hallucination
Examples
“According to Ziehen, most of these nephritic psychoses run the course of what he calls hallucinatory paranoia (it may be remembered that Ziehen counts among paranoias a number of acute diseases and even so-called Meynert's amentia).”
“His paintings on canvas of tropical scenes, deep-shadowed and vaguely disturbing - the word "hallucinatory" has popped up in descriptions - suggest his Puerto Rican roots.”
“It was kind of hallucinatory, Nick Offerman tells us.”
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“By the end of the song he has entered a kind of hallucinatory ecstasy; the music aches and yearns as it rolls on out.”
“But ibogaine, I believe, induces some kind of hallucinatory state.”
“In this type of explanation, it seems to me, so-called "close encounters" are, in effect, a kind of hallucinatory experience BUT ONE WHICH IS INDUCED BY ACTUAL ENTITIES WHO SIMPLY CHOOSE TO MANIFEST THEMSELVES IN THIS FORM.”
“One such piece is Hector Berlioz's rambunctious "Symphonie Fantastique," a kind of hallucinatory self-portrait that ends with the French composer imagining himself in the afterlife.”
“Brighton gave one a kind of hallucinatory vision of how this process might feel.”
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“Although Prince and Rubin said they were not alone among financial executives to miss signs of the coming crisis, commission member Byron Georgiou, a Democratic appointee, said they and others were "hallucinatory" given the risks being taken with subprime mortgages.”
“This is the bad kind of hallucinatory cult, that imagines some sort of ... of ... continuum between local and global pollution, as though one could simply travel from point A to point B by passing through the space between, despite what Zeno of Elea had to say on the matter.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hallucinatory’.
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adj. + adv.
vainglorious, lanuginous, altiloquent, ambisextrous, desiderative, flothery, liquescent, logoed, autotelic, tropology, erotogenic, crocky and 108 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Noesis
Mind or Mind Altering
example: psychotomimetic
( _mark, personal list, randomness )
related:
noetic, entheogen, psychonautics, infinite, bewilderment, mystification, stupefication, enhanced, altered, perception, simulation, network and 212 more... -
MsHalston's Words
theoretically, insufferable, apolitico, milquetoast, egregious, aplomb, elan, fraught, flummox, befrocked, moll, molten and 605 more...
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renorover's Words
ludicrous, orgasm, photosynthesis, postmortem, clitoris, hallucinatory, incredulous, irascible, intercourse, fuck, nebulous, cantankerous and 11 more...
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marmoreal, monomania, parenthetically, vestigial, heathenish, harlequinade, hallucinatory, somnipathy, alphanumeric, algidity, agrarian, acclivitous and 61 more...
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lleyke's Words
recalcitrance, delight, wombat, bounder, cad, scoundrel, hegemony, ecstatic, winnicottian, salacious, paddington, quizzical and 29 more...
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A Summer of Hummingbirds
Words, from A Summer of Hummingbirds by Christopher Benfey
adrift, hyacinth, heliotrope, honeysuckle, evanescent, dynamism, luminous, rubythroat, jewels, exquisite, fluidity, geranium and 23 more...
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dogfish's Words
somnambulist, pulchritude, serpentine, awkward, ambulatory, arsenic, firmament, meretricious, snarky, casuistry, spinal, ephemeral and 78 more...
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