hallucinatory
adjective
hal·lu·ci·na·to·ry
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Definition of hallucinatory
1
: tending to produce hallucination
hallucinatory drugs
2
: resembling, involving, or being a hallucination
hallucinatory dreams a hallucinatory figure
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The resulting images are hallucinatory in their intensity, evoking a fever dream or a psychedelic trip—an effect created in part by the absence of shadows, a trick Cobb learned from 3D modeling. — Wired, "These Hallucinatory Landscape Photographs Will Blow Your Mind," 1 Sep. 2019 Beal’s castle was a hallucinatory, improbable cascade of car bumpers, endless Busch beer cans, plaster of Paris archways embedded with abalone shells and dolls, rusted car wheels and driftwood. — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, "Crystal Cathedral, the original evangelical megachurch, has a conversion to Catholicism," 21 July 2019 This new group show, inspired by the film, explores the hallucinatory, the dramatic and the childlike in work by artists such as Alake Shilling, Claire Milbrath and Ram Han, among others. — Los Angeles Times, "Datebook: Jasmine Little etches the history of art into contemporary ceramics," 18 July 2019 Quaid’s life went the way of a Shepard script a decade ago, transforming into a self-devouring, hallucinatory version of itself. — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, "Sam Shepard Saw It All Coming," 11 July 2019 Ruiz, who’s one of the great directorial fantasists, relies on hallucinatory effects to evoke shifts in time, intimate imaginings, and literary creation. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, "Five Films to Stream on Kanopy While New Yorkers Still Can," 28 June 2019 There is even a hallucinatory dancing-on-the-ceiling sequence, although not in a way that will remind anyone of Fred Astaire. — Brian Lowry, CNN, "'Euphoria' and 'Trinkets' join crowded class of TV teens in trouble," 14 June 2019 Dying people in the bygone world were said to have commonly seen their dead relations or others known to them—not in the hallucinatory trips of the near-death experience, but in the sickroom with them. — John Crowley, Harper's magazine, "Works of Mercy," 10 Apr. 2019 Now, more of his hallucinatory and terrifying visions arrive on Amazon, with 10 stand-alone adaptations of his short stories. — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, "What’s on TV Friday: David Letterman’s New Show and a Tribute to Tony Bennett," 12 Jan. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'hallucinatory.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for hallucinatory
hallucinatory
adjective
hal·lu·ci·na·to·ry
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Medical Definition of hallucinatory
1
: tending to produce hallucinations
hallucinatory drugs
2
: resembling, involving, or being a hallucination
hallucinatory dreams a hallucinatory figure
Other Words from hallucinatory
hallucinatorily
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