Definitions for psychedelic

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psychedelic psy·che·del·ic

Spelling: [sahy-ki-del-ik]

IPA: /ˌsaɪ kɪˈdɛl ɪk/

Psychedelic is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 544 anagrams from letters in psychedelic (ccdeehilpsy).

Definitions for psychedelic

noun

1. a psychedelic drug.
2. a person who uses such a substance.

adjective

1. of or noting a mental state characterized by a profound sense of intensified sensory perception, sometimes accompanied by severe perceptual distortion and hallucinations and by extreme feelings of either euphoria or despair.
2. of, relating to, or noting any of various drugs producing this state, as LSD, mescaline, or psilocybin.
3. resembling, characteristic of, or reproducing images, sounds, or the like, experienced while in such a state:

Origin of psychedelic

1956; psyche + Greek dêl(os) visible, manifest, evident + -ic

Examples for psychedelic

Prior to her marriage, she joined a psychedelic rock band, Hopewell, and toured with the band through Europe for five years.

The drug of choice for 1980s clubgoers, it gained a sticky reputation as “speed with a psychedelic and empathetic twist.”

In their free time, they smoke weed, have adventures with psychedelic mushrooms, and drink beers on top of their roof.

Then a little consortium of people in the psychedelic community—especially the most credentialed ones—presented their evidence.

By the mid-1990s, Kinkade had become to the evangelical movement what Peter Max was to the psychedelic Sixties.

Miller traces his irreverent and subversive streak to a psychedelic experience during the particularly sweltering summer of 1991.

While originating from cannabis sativa, like pot, it contains only a negligible amount of THC (the psychedelic chemical in weed).

Visitors can take a behind-the-scenes tour of the theater and party at the psychedelic Revolution Lounge.

The means and approval to research the psychedelic on humans is few and far between.

Rebels and villagers stare out from the psychedelic images with unfiltered defiance.