hallucinatory

[US]/hə'luːsɪnə,t(ə)rɪ/
[UK]/hə'lusənətɔri/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. causing hallucinations, related to or characteristic of hallucinations

Phrases & Collocations

hallucinatory experience

hallucinatory effects

Example Sentences

the hallucinatory alkaloid that is the active agent in mescal buttons.

Real-world Examples

The novel's hallucinatory world is evoked through film projections, puppets and music.

Source: The Economist - Arts

Around us is an almost hallucinatory landscape, the ergs or great sand dunes.

Source: Insect Kingdom Season 2 (Original Soundtrack Version)

But it's clear that hallucinatory experiences are much more closely tied to ordinary perception than we once thought.

Source: Bilingual Edition of TED-Ed Selected Speeches

No one knows what order the scenes can go in, which makes them even more hallucinatory and fun to rearrange.

Source: Crash Course in Drama

(Laughter) A great, fun, hallucinatory place to visit has become our home.

Source: TED Talks (Video Edition) November 2019 Collection

But it’s clear that hallucinatory experiences are much more closely tied to ordinary perception than we once thought.

Source: TED-Ed (video version)

In 2012, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Mo Yan who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.

Source: High-scoring English Essays for Graduate Entrance Exams

And yet the best of them—The Haunted Palace, The Conqueror Worm, The Masque of the Red Death—achieved a hallucinatory eeriness that made them special.

Source: Stephen King on Writing

Now you do this to some extent in the dream state, but even then in many dreams you still tend to translate experience into hallucinatory physical terms.

Source: 1The Eternal Validity of the Soul

This is not meant to deny the importance or the value of the particular hallucinatory universe in any way.It has a definite purpose.But the analogy holds, and is more valid than you might think.Complete concentration and focus is your answer.

Source: The Early Sessions

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