Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Hallucinatory

Definition: Hallucinatory

Hallucinatory

Adjective

1. Partaking of hallucination; "fleeing in terror from hallucinatory wolves"; "the bizarre hallucinatory dreams of fever"- Jean Stafford.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hallucinatory" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Synonyms within Context: Hallucinatory

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Insanity

Maniacal; delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk; delusional, hallucinatory.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Top     

.

Crosswords: Hallucinatory

English words defined with "hallucinatory": chromatismmescalinepeyotetrip. (references)
Specialty definitions using "hallucinatory": clairaudience. (references)

Top     

Usage Frequency: Hallucinatory

"Hallucinatory" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hallucinatory" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4153,521

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Top     

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hallucinatory

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

hallucinatory

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Modern Translations: Hallucinatory

Language Translations for "hallucinatory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

幻觉 (hallucination, illusion, illusory). (various references)

   

Danish

  

hallucinatorisk. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

hallucinotisch, hallucinerend, hallucinatoir. (various references)

   

French

  

hallucinatoire. (various references)

   

German

  

halluzinatorisch, hallucinatorisch. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παραισθησιογόνοσ (psychedelic, psychedelical), παραισθητικός, ψευδαισθητικός (illusory). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hallucinációs. (various references)

   

Italian

  

allucinatorio. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allucinatoryhay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

alucinatório. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

alucinatorio. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hallucinatorisk. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

що виклика" галюцинації. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Rhyming with "Hallucinatory"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "hallucinatory" (pronounced huluw"sunutô'rē)
7-u n u t ô' r ēdiscriminatory, nondiscriminatory.
6-n u t ô' r ēexplanatory, signatory.
5-u t ô' r ēaccusatory, aleatory, ambulatory, anticipatory, articulatory, auditory, celebratory, circulatory, compensatory, conciliatory, confirmatory, confiscatory, congratulatory, contributory, declaratory, defamatory, depilatory, depository, derogatory, dilatory, dormitory, excretory, exculpatory, expiratory, exploratory, incantatory, inflammatory, inhibitory, interrogatory, investigatory, laboratory, laudatory, lavatory, mandatory, migratory, obligatory, observatory, oratory, oscillatory, participatory, predatory, preparatory, prohibitory, purgatory, reformatory, regulatory, repository, respiratory, retaliatory, revelatory, statutory, territory, transitory.
4-t ô' r ēdesultory, multistory, repertory, understory.
3-ô' r ēallegory, category, outlawry, promissory.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Top     

Anagrams: Hallucinatory

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-h-i-l-l-n-o-r-t-u-y"

-1 letter: hallucinator.

-3 letters: cautionary, nautically, notarially, rationally.

-4 letters: acylation, allantoic, ancillary, antically, auctorial, authorial, cantorial, carnality, cranially, inhalator, naturally, ontically, raunchily, tonically, unclarity, unlyrical.

-5 letters: acrolith, actually, alacrity, analytic, anorthic, antiroll, atonally, autarchy, calutron, carillon, carnally, caryotin, chorally, cilantro, clitoral, coitally, collyria, contrail, cothurni, culinary, halation, horntail, inthrall, lacunary, locality, nautical, notarial, ocularly, rachilla, racially, raincoat, rational, ritually, tarnally, thoracal, thornily, touchily, turnhall, uncially, unholily, uranylic.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-h-i-l-l-n-o-r-t-u-y"
 

+2 letters: neuropathically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: Hallucinatory


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 61 6C 6C 75 63 69 6E 61 74 6F 72 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

....    .-    .-..    .-..    ..-    -.-.    ..    -.    .-    -    ---    .-.    -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100001 01101100 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110100 01101111 01110010 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#117 &#99 &#105 &#110 &#97 &#116 &#111 &#114 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 006C 006C 0075 0063 0069 006E 0061 0074 006F 0072 0079

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42677878876975806786818491

Top     

 

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.