Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or characterized by hallucination.
- adjective Inducing hallucination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Partaking of or producing hallucination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Partaking of, having the character of, or tending to produce, hallucinations.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Partaking of, or tending to produce,
hallucination
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective characterized by or characteristic of hallucination
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Examples
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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).
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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 By KARIN LIPSON 2011
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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 2010
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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.
Archive 2009-02-01 Fresca 2009
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But ibogaine, I believe, induces some kind of hallucinatory state.
George and Hilly 2006
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But ibogaine, I believe, induces some kind of hallucinatory state.
George and Hilly 2006
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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 Mac 2006
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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.
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Brighton gave one a kind of hallucinatory vision of how this process might feel.
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Martin Kettle 2010
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Brighton gave one a kind of hallucinatory vision of how this process might feel.
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Martin Kettle 2010
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