hallucinatory

[ huh-loo-suh-nuh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

adjective

1. pertaining to or characterized by hallucination:

   hallucinatory visions.

Other Words From

• nonhal·luci·na·tory adjective
• unhal·luci·na·tory adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of hallucinatory¹

First recorded in 1820–30; hallucinate + -ory ¹

Example Sentences

Director Robert Eggers’ follow-up to his hallucinatory 2019 film The Lighthouse is a revenge thriller set in 10th century Iceland, which stars Alexander Skarsgård as a Viking prince.

From Time

Others suspect that the psychedelic trip itself, the hallucinatory experience, is a crucial part of the treatment.

From Science News

They also bring mystical and hallucinatory experiences that are at the edge of current scientific understanding.

From Singularity Hub 

His chemistry with Haddish, who provides another way out of his misery, is powerful, culminating in a hallucinatory stroll through a neon-lit park, captured on high by a roving drone.

From The Daily Beast

The book serves as a hallucinatory work of art on the most serious of subject matters, reminiscent of early Oliver Stone films.

From Time

“I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight hours,” Dowd wrote in the column.

From The Daily Beast

I barely made it to my couch, where I lay curled up in a hallucinatory state for the next eight minutes.

From The Daily Beast

The leftist Peace Now lobby referred to it as hallucinatory.

From The Daily Beast

She then won an Oscar… in a hallucinatory vision during the illness, leading her to pursue a career in acting.

From The Daily Beast

Nothing in the almost hallucinatory and beautiful style would lead a reader to guess at the near-terminal state of its author.

From The Daily Beast

When this occurs the person merges into a psychosis which may be called "hallucinatory confusion."

From Project Gutenberg

There are no hallucinatory phases in the conditions or causes.

From Project Gutenberg

Hallucinatory visions rise in the head of my poor fellow man; make him claim over me rights which are not his.

From Project Gutenberg

This group he again subdivides into the querulent and hallucinatory paranoid forms.

From Project Gutenberg

Professor Dilthey has collected many other records of the hallucinatory clearness of the visual imagery of literary artists.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• dreamlike
• fanciful
• fantastic
• illusory