psychedelic
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7.7
- adjective
- /ˌsaɪkəˈdɛlɪk/
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psicodélico
- Hippies, mods, and freaks of all descriptions dance to the music of a psychedelic band.
- psychedelic colors
- psychedelic posters
- psychedelic rock
There's something, weirdly, I would say to many people at least, quite psychedelic about Tokyo.
- There's something, weirdly, I would say to many people at least, quite psychedelic about Tokyo.
- Google Deep Dream is a strange computer program that outputs kind of psychedelic, trippy images.
- It's a new body of work that's very trippy, dark, psychedelic.
- Beetlejuice, for instance, the idea was that I discussed with my partners a psychedelic ghost comedy.
- Around that time, Burton's running the psychedelic shack.
- So anyway, that's the honeys I recommend only if you're OK with like, psychedelic kind of horror and bees.
- He's got his Zane's got like a tie dye cord, Roy kind of psychedelic.
Examples
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As the lights dimmed, the room filled with psychedelic visuals, transforming the party atmosphere into a vibrant wonderland.
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Painted on the disc is a psychedelic coil that goes spiraling down into infinity.
Fiction book (1997) -
Video monitors with psychedelic patterns complete the atmosphere.
Fiction book (1995) -
Black and red, blue and white, purple and gold: a psychedelic zebra herd.
Fiction book (1995) -
The CD cover was a psychedelic swirl of sensual colors.
Fiction book (1999) -
A bright overhead light comes on, spotlighting a brand new VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE CONVERTIBLE, painted up psychedelic by Peter Max.
Fiction book (1999) -
A multi-colored psychedelic jumbo jet with Austin's logo on the tailpiece.
Fiction book (1997) -
I'm guessing it's the psychedelic cinematography, over-the-top makeup, and old-fashioned, ham-fisted acting.
Blog text (23) -
Nearly 500 elliptical pages long, the book is beautiful, psychedelic, rootsy, ragged, terse, boring, riveting, sad, funny, nostalgic, and forward-looking.
Blog text (27) -
The artist painted a large mural filled with psychedelic colors and swirling patterns that captivated everyone who saw it.
Synonyms
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2.6
Very strong in color, sound, movement, or feeling
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7.0
Strange like a dream and not real
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8.7
Looks and feels strange and dreamlike, often with bright changing colors
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6.8
Like a dream with strange or impossible scenes that seem unreal
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8.8
That makes someone see or hear things that are not real
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7.9
Showing strange, dreamlike images and unreal combinations
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7.9
Full of many bright colors and shapes that change often
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9.9
Looks like a strange dream with changing images
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9.9
Something that looks strange and like a vivid dream
A video or film with bright, swirling images that look unreal, like a strong drug trip
Showing very strange dreamlike scenes with bright melting colors
Full of bright colors and patterns that change quickly
Being unreal and like a dream
Having a quality like a dream or a ghost that seems unreal
Antonyms
Compounds
- NSFW
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7.2
A drug that makes you see or hear things that are not real and changes how you think and feel
- NSFW
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4.8
Rock music from the 1960s with unusual sounds and effects that suggest drug experiences
How Colorful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Psychedelic comes from the Greek parts psyche ('mind') and -delic ('to show'), so it literally means 'making the mind visible', and that is why psychedelic art uses bright, swirling colors and strange patterns like the images people report in those states.