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trippy

trippy

14 8.7
Looks and feels strange and dreamlike, often with bright changing colors
  • adjective
  • /ˈtrɪpi/
  • NSFW
translation icon : psicodélico
  • The colors in that painting are so vibrant and trippy that they almost seem to move.
  • pretty trippy
  • Wow, this is trippy
  • trippy shit

It's a new body of work that's very trippy, dark, psychedelic.

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Examples

  • I watched a trippy movie that took me on a surreal journey through a dreamlike landscape.

  • It's really kind of a trippy experience, not like flipping open a comic book at all, right?

  • And from there, I began to have really trippy things happen.

  • But the effect in person is really trippy, not to mention a lot of fun.

  • Wow yeah, that is so trippy man.

  • I feel like I was in outer space in a really, you know, trippy, wonderful way.

  • I saw them play the Triple Door late last year, and it was extremely trippy in all the right ways.

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  • Truth to tell, it is pretty trippy and comes close to a "stream of consciousness" type of experience.

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  • It is so funny and so trippy and so weird.

  • It's a new body of work that's very trippy, dark, psychedelic.

Synonyms

surreal
vstrippy
81 7.0

Strange like a dream and not real

is more informal and often suggests a druglike or intense alteration
psychedelic
vstrippy
  • NSFW
19 7.9

Causing people to see or feel things that are not real

is milder, meaning strange or dreamlike rather than intense druglike visions
dreamlike
vstrippy
9 5.7

Having a calm, unreal quality as if you are half asleep

is often more vivid and sometimes linked to druglike sensory distortions
surrealist
vstrippy
6 6.8

Like a dream with strange or impossible scenes that seem unreal

is the general strange dreamlike sense not limited to art or movement
hallucinatory
vstrippy
5 8.8

That makes someone see or hear things that are not real

is dreamlike and strange rather than specifically about hallucinations
surrealistic
vstrippy
4 7.9

Showing strange, dreamlike images and unreal combinations

is the word for strange dreamlike feeling wider than art style
phantasmagorical
vstrippy
  • Literature
1 9.9

Something that looks strange and like a vivid dream

is strange and surreal but less focused on dramatic shifting images
phantasmagoric
vstrippy
  • Literature
1 9.9

Looks like a strange dream with changing images

is generally strange and dreamlike without necessarily dramatic movement
trancelike
vstrippy
1 7.4

You are very still and not aware of things around you

is strange and surreal but usually more about vivid shifting perceptions
lysergic
vstrippy
  • NSFW
9.9

Showing very strange dreamlike scenes with bright melting colors

is strange or dreamlike but usually less intensely druglike in perception
phantasmic
vstrippy
  • Literature
9.7

Having a quality like a dream or a ghost that seems unreal

is strange and surreal but more vivid and sensory than ghostly
phantasmatic
vstrippy
  • Literature
9.9

Being unreal and like a dream

is similar but often more about strange sensory effects than merely appearance

Antonyms

683 1.0

Normal and not special or unusual

65 4.1

Showing things as they are in real life

How Surreal

psychedelic
  • NSFW
19 7.9
trippy
  • NSFW
14 8.7
weird
  • Informal
3.2
strange
207 2.3
odd
798 1.0

Surface Forms

trippy positive

Morphology

trippy = trip (semi-transparent) = trip + y

Formed from 'trip' + the productive adjectival suffix '-y'; the morphological process is regular but the relevant sense of 'trip' (psychedelic experience) is slang and may not be known to all learners.

Etymology

Trippy comes from the common word trip, which means a 'journey', plus the ending -y meaning 'full of'. People began using trip to mean a drug 'journey' with strange, dreamlike feelings, so trippy describes something that feels like a strange, dreamlike journey.