psychedelic

The definition of psychedelic is something related to drugs that cause hallucinations or altered consciousness, or the sounds and sites associated with these drugs.

(adjective)

  1. LSD (acid), a drug that alters your mind and causes hallucinations, is an example of a drug that would be described as a psychedelic drug.
  2. The Beatles are an example of a band that would be described as producing psychedelic music.
  3. A brightly dyed t-shirt with swirls of different colors is an example of a shirt that would be described as psychedelic.

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See psychedelic in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

  1. of or causing extreme changes in the conscious mind, as hallucinations, delusions, intensification of awareness and sensory perception, etc.
  2. of or associated with psychedelic drugs; specif., simulating the auditory or visual effects of the psychedelic state
  3. designating any of various fluorescent colors popularized during the 1960s

Origin: < psyche + Gr dēloun, to make manifest

noun

a psychedelic drug

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See psychedelic in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective
Of, characterized by, or generating hallucinations, distortions of perception, altered states of awareness, and occasionally states resembling psychosis.
noun
A drug, such as LSD or mescaline, that produces such effects.

Origin:

Origin: psyche1

Origin: + Greek dēloun, to make visible (from dēlos, clear, visible; see dyeu- in Indo-European roots)

Origin: + -ic

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  • psyˌche·delˈi·cal·ly adverb

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