Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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
1830, from hallucinat-, past participle stem of Latin hallucinari (see hallucinate) + -ory.
Wiktionary
a. Partaking of, or tending to produce, hallucination
WordNet
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.