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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or characterized by hallucination.
  2. adj. Inducing hallucination.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Partaking of or producing hallucination.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Partaking of, having the character of, or tending to produce, hallucinations.

WordNet 3.0

  1. 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).”

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology

  • “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.”

    NYT > Home Page

  • “It was kind of hallucinatory, Nick Offerman tells us.”

    Mega Buzz: Brennan's Big Move on Bones, Nikita's Major Murder, and Horatio's New Lover

  • “By the end of the song he has entered a kind of hallucinatory ecstasy; the music aches and yearns as it rolls on out.”

    Archive 2009-02-01

  • “But ibogaine, I believe, induces some kind of hallucinatory state.”

    George and Hilly

  • “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.”

    Posthuman Blues

  • “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.”

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local

  • “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.”

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  • “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.”

    Bouphonia

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