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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hallucinatory
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It is, after all, a fairy tale, as the movie's hallucinatory ending proves.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But particular abnormalities in biochemistry have been linked to schizophrenia since it was first discovered that hallucinatory drugs could induce a psychosis.
▪ I am not pregnant, I have not taken a hallucinatory drug, and I have never killed anyone.
▪ My viewing patterns take on a hallucinatory quality.
▪ That hallucinatory chaos had been distressing, but the solid thing it had concealed appalled him more.
▪ The events that followed proceeded at a feverish, hallucinatory pace that no one seemed able to control.
▪ The hours of darkness spent at Sloane Crescent were taking on a hallucinatory quality.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hallucinatory

Hallucinatory \Hal*lu"ci*na*to*ry\ (-n[.a]*t[-o]*r[y^]), a. Partaking of, having the character of, or tending to produce, hallucinations; as, hallucinatory visions.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hallucinatory

1830, from hallucinat-, past participle stem of Latin hallucinari (see hallucinate) + -ory.

Wiktionary
hallucinatory

a. Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination

WordNet
hallucinatory

adj. partaking of hallucination; "fleeing in terror from hallucinatory wolves"; "the bizarre hallucinatory dreams of fever"- Jean Stafford

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "hallucinatory".

Nutmeg Nutmeg can be used for a psychedelic experience, since it does contain the ingredient elemicin, which has hallucinatory properties.

The whole thing to Hal sometimes gets ritualistic and almost hallucinatory, the postprandial farewell routine.

Josun thought, was scabfish toxin, like quite a lot of other poisons, able to produce hallucinatory states in sublethal amounts?

Maybe in the end all they would find out was that these people had discovered some naturally-occurring stimulator like the one that Haddon had already synthesized, but with particularly undesirable hallucinatory and teratogenic side-effectsproducing fantasies and monsters instead of more efficient thought.

Of course the man was drugged, yet his hallucinatory representation of the darkhaired woman in her thin white robe seemed, rather than to exaggerate, to strike the very essentials of her condition.

My dreams were hallucinatory nightmares about fleeing from oversized, heavily perfumed PR flacks with chrome revolvers.

National magazines and newspapers give hallucinatory reviews of books by their fellow liberals and snub books by conservatives.

Her face hurt, and her ears rang from a hallucinatory dream of ancient voices afflicting her.

As there are, undeniably, many examples of hallucinatory appearances of persons in perfect health and ordinary circumstances, the question has been asked whether there are more cases of an apparition coinciding with death than, according to the doctrine of chances, there ought to be.

Packwood was hailed in hallucinatory press notices ceaselessly citing his “courage.

Packwood was hailed in hallucinatory press notices ceaselessly citing his "courage.

The void that surrounds those memories is misty with the fractal diminutions of endless associations and augmentations-the magical zone of the imagination, its flowstreams of hallucinatory shapes shrinking ever farther into virtual space, like a tree whose madness of tiny roots tightens on nothing.

Any one of eight dozen weird heads, assorted freaks, burned-out dopers, psychotic paranoids with hallucinatory grudges acted out in reality, not fantasy.

It was so eerily authentic, he could almost believe that he was back in the real world and all the other events had been hallucinatory.

Looking around at the tight confines of her first home on Mars, it suddenly seemed to her that the walls were moving-beating very lightly-a kind of standing wave of double vision, as if she were standing in the low morning light looking through a temporal stereopticdn, which revealed all four dimensions at once with a pulsating, hallucinatory light.