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psychedelic
[ sahy-ki-del-ik ]
adjective
- of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair:
LSD users seek the psychedelic properties of the drug, including heightened sensory experiences.
- of, relating to, or noting any of various drugs producing this state, such as LSD, mescaline, or psilocybin:
Researchers have long been interested in the potential therapeutic effects of psychedelic drugs for humans.
- characterized by images, sounds, or feelings resembling those experienced while in the altered state produced by psychedelic drugs: The psychedelic designs of music posters in the 60s were inspired by the Art Nouveau movement of the late 1800s.
Their music had a dreamy psychedelic sound, with gentle guitars and hushed vocals.
The psychedelic designs of music posters in the 60s were inspired by the Art Nouveau movement of the late 1800s.
noun
- a psychedelic drug:
The clinic will start treating patients with ketamine, a psychedelic.
- Rare. a person who uses such a substance.
psychedelic
/ ˌsaɪkɪˈdɛlɪk /
adjective
- relating to or denoting new or altered perceptions or sensory experiences, as through the use of hallucinogenic drugs
- denoting any of the drugs, esp LSD, that produce these effects
- informal.(of painting, fabric design, etc) having the vivid colours and complex patterns popularly associated with the visual effects of psychedelic states
psychedelic
- A descriptive term for things that produce or are related to hallucinations , especially drugs such as LSD .
Notes
Derived Forms
- ˌpsycheˈdelically, adverb
Other Words From
- psy·che·del·i·cal·ly adverb
- pre·psych·e·del·ic adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of psychedelic1
Word History and Origins
Origin of psychedelic1
Example Sentences
Amid the corridor’s paintings are psychedelic miniatures, framed like canvases, that respond to visitors’ presence and gestures.
They’re here for facilitated sessions using psychedelic psilocybin mushrooms.
When I ask her what I should expect, she tells me that Tayos is “a psychedelic experience.”
According to the woman, her son told her that the people last seen with Quawan were high on psychedelics and that when her son attempted to enter the car, they told him no because they had recently bleached it.
Those someones—scientists in the psychiatry department of Johns Hopkins University—are part of the burgeoning field of psychedelic studies.
Miller traces his irreverent and subversive streak to a psychedelic experience during the particularly sweltering summer of 1991.
Prior to her marriage, she joined a psychedelic rock band, Hopewell, and toured with the band through Europe for five years.
Then a little consortium of people in the psychedelic community—especially the most credentialed ones—presented their evidence.
The means and approval to research the psychedelic on humans is few and far between.
By the mid-1990s, Kinkade had become to the evangelical movement what Peter Max was to the psychedelic Sixties.
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