Definition of psychedelic in English:

psychedelic

adjective ˌsʌɪkəˈdɛlɪkˌsʌɪkəˈdiːlɪkˌsaɪkəˈdɛlɪk

1Relating to or denoting drugs (especially LSD) that produce hallucinations and apparent expansion of consciousness.
psychedelic drugs
the psychedelic culture of the 1960s
Example sentencesExamples
- Hallucinogen researcher Charles Grob says psychedelic drugs have the potential to alter modern medicine.
- Lilly invented the isolation tank (think ‘Altered States’), and was I believe the first person to use ketamine as a psychedelic drug.
- They said they had great respect for LSD and other psychedelic drugs, and were well aware of their potential dangers.
- Two of the study respondents said that they had sought psychiatric assistance because of their psychedelic drug experiences.
- Always at the forefront of change, Ram Dass led the baby boomers to psychedelic drugs, Eastern spirituality and social activism.
- His work on the psychedelic drug culture of the 1960s is controversial because much of the way that US culture still thinks about any drug is in association with the most negative forms of drug abuse and addiction.
- Those embracing the concept considered psychedelic drug effects as having great human intellectual potential and promoted their use as a means for auto-therapeutic healing and mind expansion.
- The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and, so it seemed, half the youth of Britain and America were experimenting with psychedelic drugs; dresses were getting shorter and hair longer.
- Nobody wants to have kids who are exploring different psychedelic experiences or unusual forms of sexuality.
- In the sixties, he took psychedelic drugs, and much of the art in this exhibit is hallucinatory - a cosmic free-for-all.
- Scientific interest in human consciousness has spurred a recent revival in psychedelic drug research, and the debate over the therapeutic potential of these psychoactive brews.
- Hagman said the psychedelic effects of the drug included seeing octopus-like creatures, lions with feathers and his long-dead grandmother.
- The acute effects that may be induced by psychedelic drugs encompass a broad spectrum of alterations in cognitive functioning.
- At some point he recalled his fascination with psychedelic mushrooms and LSD in college.
- Complementary use of LSD and other psychedelic substances are popular in other subcultural groups as well.
- Subjective reports from experienced users of psychedelic drugs can help us gain insights into both the nature of the subjective experience as well as the internal and external factors that affect it.
- Most psychedelic episodes remit within 12 hours and generally do not require medical treatment.
- Several respondents considered their normal psychological condition to be depressed, neurotic, and unstable, and suggested that this had been true before they ever tried psychedelic drugs.
- Arjuna then experiences something that sounds to a modern reader like a psychotic break or psychedelic experience.
- For a lot of people this description of visions of snakes and animals and an enchanted forest really just sounds like a good old fashioned psychedelic experience.
Synonyms
unreal, unsubstantial, illusive, illusory, illusionary, imaginary, chimerical, ethereal, phantasmagorical, trance-like
1. 1.1 (of music, especially rock) characterized by musical experimentation and drug-related lyrics.
  a psychedelic cult band
  Example sentencesExamples
  Rugged garage rock, aggro shoegazing, psychedelic sunshine pop, abstract instrumentals and hippie balladry take shape with deliciously layered guitars, effects and sly, boyish vocals.
  The band perform and write all their own material, drawing from musical influences which range from blues rock to psychedelic surf music and jazz to gel into a unique sound that captures the musical environment of today.
  The documentary explores folk music, street music, psychedelic rock, pop, rock, and many traditional forms of music.
  A Ritual Of Faith leaned more towards heavy gothic, very intense and psychedelic with really strong vocals.
  It sounds like kodo mixed with psychedelic rock and dance music, all improvised, but it's unclassifiable.
  35 years later, along comes Lenola, with another double album that proves psychedelic music can still be pretty monochromatic, a full generation after the term came into being.
  The advent of decent recording technology was one of the main things that made truly psychedelic music possible in the first place, so it seems natural that the music should continue to evolve with the technology.
  Both had outstanding natural ability and both experimented with many musical styles - Tim with folk, psychedelic rock and progressive jazz; Jeff with folk, reggae and classical music.
  There are washes of fuzz and two drummers pounding, but those are more like flashes of turbulence in a meandering stream of psychedelic swirl.
  And so he goes, snaking his way back through the crowd to the front of the stage, where he reassumes his position as the high priest of Sweden's greatest psychedelic rock band.
  A conspicuous thread of 60s psychedelic rock runs through the up-tempo tracks on the first part of the album.
  To close the regular set, Greg Keelor sang the opening lines to ‘Diamond Mine’, to loud applause and led the band into a 10-minute trance of psychedelic rock.
  It's just two guys who've been buddies for a long time and who love all sorts of music - doo wop, punk rock, psychedelic rock.
  When people think of psychedelic music and prog rock, they think of them as taking you someplace that is cosmic and untainted by anything bad.
  They were nice boys, brothers, who were drawn too deep into the dark depths of improvised and psychedelic music.
  Tenor admits that he's always felt a bit of an outsider in life, and his music is as unconventional, bringing together influences ranging from jazz, easy listening and film music to psychedelic rock and cabaret.
  In just three albums, he has defined his own recognisable sound, rooted in psychedelic rock, spiritual jazz and contemporary dance music, and spurted hordes of followers.
  This song started off sounding rather wistful and unobtrusive, but then grew into a psychedelic swirl of beats, voice and guitar that became completely captivating.
  His guitar playing was always the right side of avant-garde and here it shines amidst arrangements that bounce between psychedelic rock and Argentinian ambience.
  Everything counts in this iconoclastic mix of psychedelic rock, jazz and pop.
2. 1.2 Having intense, vivid colours or a swirling abstract pattern.
  a psychedelic T-shirt
  Example sentencesExamples
  But Eichner's slices of the built universe are all slightly off-square, and some (the wood grains) have patterns that are psychedelic meanderings.
  Color selections include simple banded white or cream; vivid orange, red, and yellow; and positively psychedelic swirl combinations.
  Inside the van were painted psychedelic patterns, swirled rugs and several spaced out hippies reclined on a makeshift sofa.
  The morning light reveals the whole spectrum of colors, which are intense, even psychedelic.
  Seen en masse, the effect of these rippling colour fields, outlined by dark webs, is almost psychedelic.
  The book's illustrations, many of them blow-ups of wild floral designs, are psychedelic in their intensity.
  The psychedelic colours of Fish Fry brought out the best display of dramatics, fusion and theatrics.
  Despite the bunching up of students in large droves of 30s, and the glaring psychedelic light sequences that alternated with a lot of pitch-dark moments, they did a good job.
  Fluorescent light fixtures attached to the ceiling illuminated the space, and the green, orange and yellow powder glowed with an otherworldly, psychedelic intensity.
  It will come as no surprise to their fans that the film is a phantasmagoria of sickly colours, psychedelic flourishes and jarring optical tics, all reflecting the state of mind of a character way out on the edge.
  Vibrant psychedelic colors replace the more subdued natural hues found in nature.
  They made ‘gaudy’ visual innovations - the heroic stance, the abstract element in comic art, psychedelic graphic design, bold use of color.
  Hipster trousers and a long jacket were made in almost psychedelic stripes of multi-coloured suede, PVC and ribbon sewn together so neatly as to seem seamless.
  The film broods over the Oxford monuments, twisting them into a disturbingly fraught pattern of jumbled editing, splitting and screeching noises and swirling, psychedelic visuals.
  Their psychedelic element is heightened by bright, bright colour, like turquoise greens and those hot pinks.
  Despite the colourful, psychedelic nature of the images and lights on display, they are fuzzy at best.
  With inspirations from Morocco and India, designers love to have all the embellished details, psychedelic colours, rainbow prints and antique batik patterns in their new collections.
  Later, House of Jazz playfully lifted up the sternness of black by mixing it with psychedelic colours and black and white chequered-patterns, creating a collection that pleased especially the young generation.
  This gradual return to strong, clear colors lasted well into the 1960s, culminating in the vivid psychedelic palette of the late decade.
  One thing I've noticed from the Arab world is a tendency toward psychedelic colors and patterns.
  Synonyms
  brightly coloured, bright-coloured, deep-coloured, brilliant, glowing, radiant, vivid, rich, vibrant

noun ˌsʌɪkəˈdɛlɪkˌsʌɪkəˈdiːlɪkˌsaɪkəˈdɛlɪk

A psychedelic drug.
Example sentencesExamples
- According to data from the federal government's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, some 90 percent of illicit OxyContin users have also used cocaine, psychedelics, and other painkillers.
- Our intuition tells us that using drugs use such as heroin, cocaine, psychedelics, hashish, and even marijuana and alcohol can have serious effects on our personal life and may have broader detrimental impacts on society at large.
- In addition, athletes might not perceive marijuana as being as harmful as cocaine or psychedelics, and therefore may be more inclined to try the perceived lesser of two evils.
- Siva's devotees are forbidden to use drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, barbiturates, psychedelics and marijuana, unless prescribed by a licensed physician.
- Potential users should be advised that those who have inordinate levels of fear or doubt should not take LSD or other psychedelics.

Derivatives

psychedelically

adverb

In the stultifying heat, we watch a procession of psychedelically clad Ashanti elders - paramount chiefs, chiefs, sub-chiefs, chief farmers, local politicians - taking their seats beneath an awning decked with forlorn silk flowers.
Example sentencesExamples
- 2005 Turner Prize nominee Jim Lambie presents a new installation of six enlarged ceramic, psychedelically enhanced birds in the exhibition Byrds.
- In one of the photographs with several figures, three images of the same blue-haired clown, with different expressions and in different sizes, are seen against a zigzagging, psychedelically colored background.
- The psychedelically clad pop star elite sat cross-legged around the Maharishi.
- His only attempt at creative cinematography is the scene where the camera shoots from Alexander's point of view as he looks up from his make-shift stretcher and sees an overexposed sky and the psychedelically electrified trees.

Origin

1950s: formed irregularly from psyche¹ + Greek dēlos 'clear, manifest' + -ic.

Rhymes

angelic, archangelic, evangelic, melic, melick, philatelic, relic

Definition of psychedelic in US English:

psychedelic

adjectiveˌsaɪkəˈdɛlɪkˌsīkəˈdelik

1Relating to or denoting drugs (especially LSD) that produce hallucinations and apparent expansion of consciousness.
Example sentencesExamples
- His work on the psychedelic drug culture of the 1960s is controversial because much of the way that US culture still thinks about any drug is in association with the most negative forms of drug abuse and addiction.
- Most psychedelic episodes remit within 12 hours and generally do not require medical treatment.
- Hagman said the psychedelic effects of the drug included seeing octopus-like creatures, lions with feathers and his long-dead grandmother.
- Arjuna then experiences something that sounds to a modern reader like a psychotic break or psychedelic experience.
- At some point he recalled his fascination with psychedelic mushrooms and LSD in college.
- For a lot of people this description of visions of snakes and animals and an enchanted forest really just sounds like a good old fashioned psychedelic experience.
- Always at the forefront of change, Ram Dass led the baby boomers to psychedelic drugs, Eastern spirituality and social activism.
- Lilly invented the isolation tank (think ‘Altered States’), and was I believe the first person to use ketamine as a psychedelic drug.
- Those embracing the concept considered psychedelic drug effects as having great human intellectual potential and promoted their use as a means for auto-therapeutic healing and mind expansion.
- Subjective reports from experienced users of psychedelic drugs can help us gain insights into both the nature of the subjective experience as well as the internal and external factors that affect it.
- Scientific interest in human consciousness has spurred a recent revival in psychedelic drug research, and the debate over the therapeutic potential of these psychoactive brews.
- Two of the study respondents said that they had sought psychiatric assistance because of their psychedelic drug experiences.
- Complementary use of LSD and other psychedelic substances are popular in other subcultural groups as well.
- Several respondents considered their normal psychological condition to be depressed, neurotic, and unstable, and suggested that this had been true before they ever tried psychedelic drugs.
- The acute effects that may be induced by psychedelic drugs encompass a broad spectrum of alterations in cognitive functioning.
- Hallucinogen researcher Charles Grob says psychedelic drugs have the potential to alter modern medicine.
- In the sixties, he took psychedelic drugs, and much of the art in this exhibit is hallucinatory - a cosmic free-for-all.
- Nobody wants to have kids who are exploring different psychedelic experiences or unusual forms of sexuality.
- They said they had great respect for LSD and other psychedelic drugs, and were well aware of their potential dangers.
- The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and, so it seemed, half the youth of Britain and America were experimenting with psychedelic drugs; dresses were getting shorter and hair longer.
Synonyms
unreal, unsubstantial, illusive, illusory, illusionary, imaginary, chimerical, ethereal, phantasmagorical, trance-like
1. 1.1 Relating to or denoting a style of rock music originating in the mid 1960s, characterized by musical experimentation and drug-related lyrics.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The band perform and write all their own material, drawing from musical influences which range from blues rock to psychedelic surf music and jazz to gel into a unique sound that captures the musical environment of today.
  It sounds like kodo mixed with psychedelic rock and dance music, all improvised, but it's unclassifiable.
  Both had outstanding natural ability and both experimented with many musical styles - Tim with folk, psychedelic rock and progressive jazz; Jeff with folk, reggae and classical music.
  Tenor admits that he's always felt a bit of an outsider in life, and his music is as unconventional, bringing together influences ranging from jazz, easy listening and film music to psychedelic rock and cabaret.
  A Ritual Of Faith leaned more towards heavy gothic, very intense and psychedelic with really strong vocals.
  The documentary explores folk music, street music, psychedelic rock, pop, rock, and many traditional forms of music.
  Everything counts in this iconoclastic mix of psychedelic rock, jazz and pop.
  When people think of psychedelic music and prog rock, they think of them as taking you someplace that is cosmic and untainted by anything bad.
  35 years later, along comes Lenola, with another double album that proves psychedelic music can still be pretty monochromatic, a full generation after the term came into being.
  And so he goes, snaking his way back through the crowd to the front of the stage, where he reassumes his position as the high priest of Sweden's greatest psychedelic rock band.
  They were nice boys, brothers, who were drawn too deep into the dark depths of improvised and psychedelic music.
  There are washes of fuzz and two drummers pounding, but those are more like flashes of turbulence in a meandering stream of psychedelic swirl.
  In just three albums, he has defined his own recognisable sound, rooted in psychedelic rock, spiritual jazz and contemporary dance music, and spurted hordes of followers.
  It's just two guys who've been buddies for a long time and who love all sorts of music - doo wop, punk rock, psychedelic rock.
  His guitar playing was always the right side of avant-garde and here it shines amidst arrangements that bounce between psychedelic rock and Argentinian ambience.
  A conspicuous thread of 60s psychedelic rock runs through the up-tempo tracks on the first part of the album.
  Rugged garage rock, aggro shoegazing, psychedelic sunshine pop, abstract instrumentals and hippie balladry take shape with deliciously layered guitars, effects and sly, boyish vocals.
  To close the regular set, Greg Keelor sang the opening lines to ‘Diamond Mine’, to loud applause and led the band into a 10-minute trance of psychedelic rock.
  This song started off sounding rather wistful and unobtrusive, but then grew into a psychedelic swirl of beats, voice and guitar that became completely captivating.
  The advent of decent recording technology was one of the main things that made truly psychedelic music possible in the first place, so it seems natural that the music should continue to evolve with the technology.
2. 1.2 Denoting or having an intense, vivid color or a swirling abstract pattern.
  a psychedelic T-shirt
  Example sentencesExamples
  Hipster trousers and a long jacket were made in almost psychedelic stripes of multi-coloured suede, PVC and ribbon sewn together so neatly as to seem seamless.
  Vibrant psychedelic colors replace the more subdued natural hues found in nature.
  The morning light reveals the whole spectrum of colors, which are intense, even psychedelic.
  With inspirations from Morocco and India, designers love to have all the embellished details, psychedelic colours, rainbow prints and antique batik patterns in their new collections.
  The book's illustrations, many of them blow-ups of wild floral designs, are psychedelic in their intensity.
  Color selections include simple banded white or cream; vivid orange, red, and yellow; and positively psychedelic swirl combinations.
  Inside the van were painted psychedelic patterns, swirled rugs and several spaced out hippies reclined on a makeshift sofa.
  The psychedelic colours of Fish Fry brought out the best display of dramatics, fusion and theatrics.
  Despite the colourful, psychedelic nature of the images and lights on display, they are fuzzy at best.
  Fluorescent light fixtures attached to the ceiling illuminated the space, and the green, orange and yellow powder glowed with an otherworldly, psychedelic intensity.
  One thing I've noticed from the Arab world is a tendency toward psychedelic colors and patterns.
  This gradual return to strong, clear colors lasted well into the 1960s, culminating in the vivid psychedelic palette of the late decade.
  The film broods over the Oxford monuments, twisting them into a disturbingly fraught pattern of jumbled editing, splitting and screeching noises and swirling, psychedelic visuals.
  They made ‘gaudy’ visual innovations - the heroic stance, the abstract element in comic art, psychedelic graphic design, bold use of color.
  Seen en masse, the effect of these rippling colour fields, outlined by dark webs, is almost psychedelic.
  Later, House of Jazz playfully lifted up the sternness of black by mixing it with psychedelic colours and black and white chequered-patterns, creating a collection that pleased especially the young generation.
  It will come as no surprise to their fans that the film is a phantasmagoria of sickly colours, psychedelic flourishes and jarring optical tics, all reflecting the state of mind of a character way out on the edge.
  Their psychedelic element is heightened by bright, bright colour, like turquoise greens and those hot pinks.
  But Eichner's slices of the built universe are all slightly off-square, and some (the wood grains) have patterns that are psychedelic meanderings.
  Despite the bunching up of students in large droves of 30s, and the glaring psychedelic light sequences that alternated with a lot of pitch-dark moments, they did a good job.
  Synonyms
  brightly coloured, bright-coloured, deep-coloured, brilliant, glowing, radiant, vivid, rich, vibrant

nounˌsaɪkəˈdɛlɪkˌsīkəˈdelik

A psychedelic drug.
Example sentencesExamples
- Siva's devotees are forbidden to use drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, barbiturates, psychedelics and marijuana, unless prescribed by a licensed physician.
- In addition, athletes might not perceive marijuana as being as harmful as cocaine or psychedelics, and therefore may be more inclined to try the perceived lesser of two evils.
- According to data from the federal government's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, some 90 percent of illicit OxyContin users have also used cocaine, psychedelics, and other painkillers.
- Potential users should be advised that those who have inordinate levels of fear or doubt should not take LSD or other psychedelics.
- Our intuition tells us that using drugs use such as heroin, cocaine, psychedelics, hashish, and even marijuana and alcohol can have serious effects on our personal life and may have broader detrimental impacts on society at large.

Origin

1950s: formed irregularly from psyche + Greek dēlos ‘clear, manifest’ + -ic.

单词	psychedelic
释义	Definition of psychedelic in English: psychedelic adjective ˌsʌɪkəˈdɛlɪkˌsʌɪkəˈdiːlɪkˌsaɪkəˈdɛlɪk 1Relating to or denoting drugs (especially LSD) that produce hallucinations and apparent expansion of consciousness. psychedelic drugs the psychedelic culture of the 1960s Example sentencesExamples Hallucinogen researcher Charles Grob says psychedelic drugs have the potential to alter modern medicine. Lilly invented the isolation tank (think ‘Altered States’), and was I believe the first person to use ketamine as a psychedelic drug. They said they had great respect for LSD and other psychedelic drugs, and were well aware of their potential dangers. Two of the study respondents said that they had sought psychiatric assistance because of their psychedelic drug experiences. Always at the forefront of change, Ram Dass led the baby boomers to psychedelic drugs, Eastern spirituality and social activism. His work on the psychedelic drug culture of the 1960s is controversial because much of the way that US culture still thinks about any drug is in association with the most negative forms of drug abuse and addiction. Those embracing the concept considered psychedelic drug effects as having great human intellectual potential and promoted their use as a means for auto-therapeutic healing and mind expansion. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and, so it seemed, half the youth of Britain and America were experimenting with psychedelic drugs; dresses were getting shorter and hair longer. Nobody wants to have kids who are exploring different psychedelic experiences or unusual forms of sexuality. In the sixties, he took psychedelic drugs, and much of the art in this exhibit is hallucinatory - a cosmic free-for-all. Scientific interest in human consciousness has spurred a recent revival in psychedelic drug research, and the debate over the therapeutic potential of these psychoactive brews. Hagman said the psychedelic effects of the drug included seeing octopus-like creatures, lions with feathers and his long-dead grandmother. The acute effects that may be induced by psychedelic drugs encompass a broad spectrum of alterations in cognitive functioning. At some point he recalled his fascination with psychedelic mushrooms and LSD in college. Complementary use of LSD and other psychedelic substances are popular in other subcultural groups as well. Subjective reports from experienced users of psychedelic drugs can help us gain insights into both the nature of the subjective experience as well as the internal and external factors that affect it. Most psychedelic episodes remit within 12 hours and generally do not require medical treatment. Several respondents considered their normal psychological condition to be depressed, neurotic, and unstable, and suggested that this had been true before they ever tried psychedelic drugs. Arjuna then experiences something that sounds to a modern reader like a psychotic break or psychedelic experience. For a lot of people this description of visions of snakes and animals and an enchanted forest really just sounds like a good old fashioned psychedelic experience. Synonyms unreal, unsubstantial, illusive, illusory, illusionary, imaginary, chimerical, ethereal, phantasmagorical, trance-like 1.1 (of music, especially rock) characterized by musical experimentation and drug-related lyrics. a psychedelic cult band Example sentencesExamples Rugged garage rock, aggro shoegazing, psychedelic sunshine pop, abstract instrumentals and hippie balladry take shape with deliciously layered guitars, effects and sly, boyish vocals. The band perform and write all their own material, drawing from musical influences which range from blues rock to psychedelic surf music and jazz to gel into a unique sound that captures the musical environment of today. The documentary explores folk music, street music, psychedelic rock, pop, rock, and many traditional forms of music. A Ritual Of Faith leaned more towards heavy gothic, very intense and psychedelic with really strong vocals. It sounds like kodo mixed with psychedelic rock and dance music, all improvised, but it's unclassifiable. 35 years later, along comes Lenola, with another double album that proves psychedelic music can still be pretty monochromatic, a full generation after the term came into being. The advent of decent recording technology was one of the main things that made truly psychedelic music possible in the first place, so it seems natural that the music should continue to evolve with the technology. Both had outstanding natural ability and both experimented with many musical styles - Tim with folk, psychedelic rock and progressive jazz; Jeff with folk, reggae and classical music. There are washes of fuzz and two drummers pounding, but those are more like flashes of turbulence in a meandering stream of psychedelic swirl. And so he goes, snaking his way back through the crowd to the front of the stage, where he reassumes his position as the high priest of Sweden's greatest psychedelic rock band. A conspicuous thread of 60s psychedelic rock runs through the up-tempo tracks on the first part of the album. To close the regular set, Greg Keelor sang the opening lines to ‘Diamond Mine’, to loud applause and led the band into a 10-minute trance of psychedelic rock. It's just two guys who've been buddies for a long time and who love all sorts of music - doo wop, punk rock, psychedelic rock. When people think of psychedelic music and prog rock, they think of them as taking you someplace that is cosmic and untainted by anything bad. They were nice boys, brothers, who were drawn too deep into the dark depths of improvised and psychedelic music. Tenor admits that he's always felt a bit of an outsider in life, and his music is as unconventional, bringing together influences ranging from jazz, easy listening and film music to psychedelic rock and cabaret. In just three albums, he has defined his own recognisable sound, rooted in psychedelic rock, spiritual jazz and contemporary dance music, and spurted hordes of followers. This song started off sounding rather wistful and unobtrusive, but then grew into a psychedelic swirl of beats, voice and guitar that became completely captivating. His guitar playing was always the right side of avant-garde and here it shines amidst arrangements that bounce between psychedelic rock and Argentinian ambience. Everything counts in this iconoclastic mix of psychedelic rock, jazz and pop. 1.2 Having intense, vivid colours or a swirling abstract pattern. a psychedelic T-shirt Example sentencesExamples But Eichner's slices of the built universe are all slightly off-square, and some (the wood grains) have patterns that are psychedelic meanderings. Color selections include simple banded white or cream; vivid orange, red, and yellow; and positively psychedelic swirl combinations. Inside the van were painted psychedelic patterns, swirled rugs and several spaced out hippies reclined on a makeshift sofa. The morning light reveals the whole spectrum of colors, which are intense, even psychedelic. Seen en masse, the effect of these rippling colour fields, outlined by dark webs, is almost psychedelic. The book's illustrations, many of them blow-ups of wild floral designs, are psychedelic in their intensity. The psychedelic colours of Fish Fry brought out the best display of dramatics, fusion and theatrics. Despite the bunching up of students in large droves of 30s, and the glaring psychedelic light sequences that alternated with a lot of pitch-dark moments, they did a good job. Fluorescent light fixtures attached to the ceiling illuminated the space, and the green, orange and yellow powder glowed with an otherworldly, psychedelic intensity. It will come as no surprise to their fans that the film is a phantasmagoria of sickly colours, psychedelic flourishes and jarring optical tics, all reflecting the state of mind of a character way out on the edge. Vibrant psychedelic colors replace the more subdued natural hues found in nature. They made ‘gaudy’ visual innovations - the heroic stance, the abstract element in comic art, psychedelic graphic design, bold use of color. Hipster trousers and a long jacket were made in almost psychedelic stripes of multi-coloured suede, PVC and ribbon sewn together so neatly as to seem seamless. The film broods over the Oxford monuments, twisting them into a disturbingly fraught pattern of jumbled editing, splitting and screeching noises and swirling, psychedelic visuals. Their psychedelic element is heightened by bright, bright colour, like turquoise greens and those hot pinks. Despite the colourful, psychedelic nature of the images and lights on display, they are fuzzy at best. With inspirations from Morocco and India, designers love to have all the embellished details, psychedelic colours, rainbow prints and antique batik patterns in their new collections. Later, House of Jazz playfully lifted up the sternness of black by mixing it with psychedelic colours and black and white chequered-patterns, creating a collection that pleased especially the young generation. This gradual return to strong, clear colors lasted well into the 1960s, culminating in the vivid psychedelic palette of the late decade. One thing I've noticed from the Arab world is a tendency toward psychedelic colors and patterns. Synonyms brightly coloured, bright-coloured, deep-coloured, brilliant, glowing, radiant, vivid, rich, vibrant noun ˌsʌɪkəˈdɛlɪkˌsʌɪkəˈdiːlɪkˌsaɪkəˈdɛlɪk A psychedelic drug. Example sentencesExamples According to data from the federal government's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, some 90 percent of illicit OxyContin users have also used cocaine, psychedelics, and other painkillers. Our intuition tells us that using drugs use such as heroin, cocaine, psychedelics, hashish, and even marijuana and alcohol can have serious effects on our personal life and may have broader detrimental impacts on society at large. In addition, athletes might not perceive marijuana as being as harmful as cocaine or psychedelics, and therefore may be more inclined to try the perceived lesser of two evils. Siva's devotees are forbidden to use drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, barbiturates, psychedelics and marijuana, unless prescribed by a licensed physician. Potential users should be advised that those who have inordinate levels of fear or doubt should not take LSD or other psychedelics. Derivatives psychedelically adverb In the stultifying heat, we watch a procession of psychedelically clad Ashanti elders - paramount chiefs, chiefs, sub-chiefs, chief farmers, local politicians - taking their seats beneath an awning decked with forlorn silk flowers. Example sentencesExamples 2005 Turner Prize nominee Jim Lambie presents a new installation of six enlarged ceramic, psychedelically enhanced birds in the exhibition Byrds. In one of the photographs with several figures, three images of the same blue-haired clown, with different expressions and in different sizes, are seen against a zigzagging, psychedelically colored background. The psychedelically clad pop star elite sat cross-legged around the Maharishi. His only attempt at creative cinematography is the scene where the camera shoots from Alexander's point of view as he looks up from his make-shift stretcher and sees an overexposed sky and the psychedelically electrified trees. Origin 1950s: formed irregularly from psyche¹ + Greek dēlos 'clear, manifest' + -ic. Rhymes angelic, archangelic, evangelic, melic, melick, philatelic, relic Definition of psychedelic in US English: psychedelic adjectiveˌsaɪkəˈdɛlɪkˌsīkəˈdelik 1Relating to or denoting drugs (especially LSD) that produce hallucinations and apparent expansion of consciousness. Example sentencesExamples His work on the psychedelic drug culture of the 1960s is controversial because much of the way that US culture still thinks about any drug is in association with the most negative forms of drug abuse and addiction. Most psychedelic episodes remit within 12 hours and generally do not require medical treatment. Hagman said the psychedelic effects of the drug included seeing octopus-like creatures, lions with feathers and his long-dead grandmother. Arjuna then experiences something that sounds to a modern reader like a psychotic break or psychedelic experience. At some point he recalled his fascination with psychedelic mushrooms and LSD in college. For a lot of people this description of visions of snakes and animals and an enchanted forest really just sounds like a good old fashioned psychedelic experience. Always at the forefront of change, Ram Dass led the baby boomers to psychedelic drugs, Eastern spirituality and social activism. Lilly invented the isolation tank (think ‘Altered States’), and was I believe the first person to use ketamine as a psychedelic drug. Those embracing the concept considered psychedelic drug effects as having great human intellectual potential and promoted their use as a means for auto-therapeutic healing and mind expansion. Subjective reports from experienced users of psychedelic drugs can help us gain insights into both the nature of the subjective experience as well as the internal and external factors that affect it. Scientific interest in human consciousness has spurred a recent revival in psychedelic drug research, and the debate over the therapeutic potential of these psychoactive brews. Two of the study respondents said that they had sought psychiatric assistance because of their psychedelic drug experiences. Complementary use of LSD and other psychedelic substances are popular in other subcultural groups as well. Several respondents considered their normal psychological condition to be depressed, neurotic, and unstable, and suggested that this had been true before they ever tried psychedelic drugs. The acute effects that may be induced by psychedelic drugs encompass a broad spectrum of alterations in cognitive functioning. Hallucinogen researcher Charles Grob says psychedelic drugs have the potential to alter modern medicine. In the sixties, he took psychedelic drugs, and much of the art in this exhibit is hallucinatory - a cosmic free-for-all. Nobody wants to have kids who are exploring different psychedelic experiences or unusual forms of sexuality. They said they had great respect for LSD and other psychedelic drugs, and were well aware of their potential dangers. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and, so it seemed, half the youth of Britain and America were experimenting with psychedelic drugs; dresses were getting shorter and hair longer. Synonyms unreal, unsubstantial, illusive, illusory, illusionary, imaginary, chimerical, ethereal, phantasmagorical, trance-like 1.1 Relating to or denoting a style of rock music originating in the mid 1960s, characterized by musical experimentation and drug-related lyrics. Example sentencesExamples The band perform and write all their own material, drawing from musical influences which range from blues rock to psychedelic surf music and jazz to gel into a unique sound that captures the musical environment of today. It sounds like kodo mixed with psychedelic rock and dance music, all improvised, but it's unclassifiable. Both had outstanding natural ability and both experimented with many musical styles - Tim with folk, psychedelic rock and progressive jazz; Jeff with folk, reggae and classical music. Tenor admits that he's always felt a bit of an outsider in life, and his music is as unconventional, bringing together influences ranging from jazz, easy listening and film music to psychedelic rock and cabaret. A Ritual Of Faith leaned more towards heavy gothic, very intense and psychedelic with really strong vocals. The documentary explores folk music, street music, psychedelic rock, pop, rock, and many traditional forms of music. Everything counts in this iconoclastic mix of psychedelic rock, jazz and pop. When people think of psychedelic music and prog rock, they think of them as taking you someplace that is cosmic and untainted by anything bad. 35 years later, along comes Lenola, with another double album that proves psychedelic music can still be pretty monochromatic, a full generation after the term came into being. And so he goes, snaking his way back through the crowd to the front of the stage, where he reassumes his position as the high priest of Sweden's greatest psychedelic rock band. They were nice boys, brothers, who were drawn too deep into the dark depths of improvised and psychedelic music. There are washes of fuzz and two drummers pounding, but those are more like flashes of turbulence in a meandering stream of psychedelic swirl. In just three albums, he has defined his own recognisable sound, rooted in psychedelic rock, spiritual jazz and contemporary dance music, and spurted hordes of followers. It's just two guys who've been buddies for a long time and who love all sorts of music - doo wop, punk rock, psychedelic rock. His guitar playing was always the right side of avant-garde and here it shines amidst arrangements that bounce between psychedelic rock and Argentinian ambience. A conspicuous thread of 60s psychedelic rock runs through the up-tempo tracks on the first part of the album. Rugged garage rock, aggro shoegazing, psychedelic sunshine pop, abstract instrumentals and hippie balladry take shape with deliciously layered guitars, effects and sly, boyish vocals. To close the regular set, Greg Keelor sang the opening lines to ‘Diamond Mine’, to loud applause and led the band into a 10-minute trance of psychedelic rock. This song started off sounding rather wistful and unobtrusive, but then grew into a psychedelic swirl of beats, voice and guitar that became completely captivating. The advent of decent recording technology was one of the main things that made truly psychedelic music possible in the first place, so it seems natural that the music should continue to evolve with the technology. 1.2 Denoting or having an intense, vivid color or a swirling abstract pattern. a psychedelic T-shirt Example sentencesExamples Hipster trousers and a long jacket were made in almost psychedelic stripes of multi-coloured suede, PVC and ribbon sewn together so neatly as to seem seamless. Vibrant psychedelic colors replace the more subdued natural hues found in nature. The morning light reveals the whole spectrum of colors, which are intense, even psychedelic. With inspirations from Morocco and India, designers love to have all the embellished details, psychedelic colours, rainbow prints and antique batik patterns in their new collections. The book's illustrations, many of them blow-ups of wild floral designs, are psychedelic in their intensity. Color selections include simple banded white or cream; vivid orange, red, and yellow; and positively psychedelic swirl combinations. Inside the van were painted psychedelic patterns, swirled rugs and several spaced out hippies reclined on a makeshift sofa. The psychedelic colours of Fish Fry brought out the best display of dramatics, fusion and theatrics. Despite the colourful, psychedelic nature of the images and lights on display, they are fuzzy at best. Fluorescent light fixtures attached to the ceiling illuminated the space, and the green, orange and yellow powder glowed with an otherworldly, psychedelic intensity. One thing I've noticed from the Arab world is a tendency toward psychedelic colors and patterns. This gradual return to strong, clear colors lasted well into the 1960s, culminating in the vivid psychedelic palette of the late decade. The film broods over the Oxford monuments, twisting them into a disturbingly fraught pattern of jumbled editing, splitting and screeching noises and swirling, psychedelic visuals. They made ‘gaudy’ visual innovations - the heroic stance, the abstract element in comic art, psychedelic graphic design, bold use of color. Seen en masse, the effect of these rippling colour fields, outlined by dark webs, is almost psychedelic. Later, House of Jazz playfully lifted up the sternness of black by mixing it with psychedelic colours and black and white chequered-patterns, creating a collection that pleased especially the young generation. It will come as no surprise to their fans that the film is a phantasmagoria of sickly colours, psychedelic flourishes and jarring optical tics, all reflecting the state of mind of a character way out on the edge. Their psychedelic element is heightened by bright, bright colour, like turquoise greens and those hot pinks. But Eichner's slices of the built universe are all slightly off-square, and some (the wood grains) have patterns that are psychedelic meanderings. Despite the bunching up of students in large droves of 30s, and the glaring psychedelic light sequences that alternated with a lot of pitch-dark moments, they did a good job. Synonyms brightly coloured, bright-coloured, deep-coloured, brilliant, glowing, radiant, vivid, rich, vibrant nounˌsaɪkəˈdɛlɪkˌsīkəˈdelik A psychedelic drug. Example sentencesExamples Siva's devotees are forbidden to use drugs of abuse, such as cocaine, heroin, amphetamines, barbiturates, psychedelics and marijuana, unless prescribed by a licensed physician. In addition, athletes might not perceive marijuana as being as harmful as cocaine or psychedelics, and therefore may be more inclined to try the perceived lesser of two evils. According to data from the federal government's National Survey on Drug Use and Health, some 90 percent of illicit OxyContin users have also used cocaine, psychedelics, and other painkillers. Potential users should be advised that those who have inordinate levels of fear or doubt should not take LSD or other psychedelics. Our intuition tells us that using drugs use such as heroin, cocaine, psychedelics, hashish, and even marijuana and alcohol can have serious effects on our personal life and may have broader detrimental impacts on society at large. Origin 1950s: formed irregularly from psyche + Greek dēlos ‘clear, manifest’ + -ic.
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