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Definition: Psychedelic |
PsychedelicAdjective1. Producing distorted sensory perceptions and feelings or altered states of awareness or sometimes states resembling psychosis; "psychedelic drugs like psilocybin and mescaline". 2. Having the vivid colors and bizarre patterns associated with psychedelic states; "a psychedelic painting". 3. Of a mental state characterized by intense and distorted perceptions and hallucinations and feelings of euphoria or sometimes despair; "a psychedelic experience". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "psychedelic" was first used: 1956. (references) |
Crosswords: Psychedelic |
| English words defined with "psychedelic": beat generation, beatniks, beats ♦ psychedelia. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "psychedelic": 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-Methylamphetamine ♦ Bufotenin ♦ hippie-flip. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
DXM, ketamine, PCP, MDMA (also known as Ecstasy), LSD, mescaline, and psychedelic mushrooms are common psychedelics.
The use of psychedelic drugs became widespread in the mid-1960s. Timothy Leary was a well known proponent of their use, as was Aldous Huxley. The fashion for psychedelic drugs gave its name to the visual style of psychedelia, and to a rock music style that became known as psychedelic music.
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Lyrics | I'm on a bus on a psychedelic trip (EYES WITHOUT A FACE; performing artist: Billy Idol) Psychedelic nations fly (Let there be more light; performing artist: Pink Floyd) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Psychedelic Pink (1968) | |
Song Titles | Psychedelic Shack (performing artist: The Temptations) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The American psychedelic light and sound show sensation pop music projection : A20.00 June 28, July 3, Theater Stalden. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | MDMA can produce both stimulant and psychedelic effects. (references) | |
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| "Psychedelic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.95% of the time. "Psychedelic" is used about 131 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.95% | 127 | 28,395 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.53% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.53% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 131 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "psychedelic": psychedelic drug. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "psychedelic": psychedelic-funk, psychedelic-tinged. | |
Ending with "psychedelic": neo-psychedelic, post-psychedelic, quasi-psychedelic, semi-psychedelic. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "psychedelic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сюрреалистичен, кошмарен (nightmarish), като халюцинация, еуфористична отрова, еуфористичен наркотик. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | psykedelisk (consciousness-expanding, mind-expanding), bevidsthedsudvidende (consciousness-expanding, mind-expanding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | psychedelisch (consciousness-expanding, mind-expanding), bewustzijnsverruimend (consciousness-expanding, mind-expanding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | psychédélique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | bewusstseinserweiternd (mind-expanding), psychedelisch (consciousness-expanding, mind-expanding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παραισθησιογόνοσ (hallucinatory, psychedelical), ψυχωσιογόνος (consciousness-expanding, mind-expanding), ψυχωσομιμητικός (consciousness-expanding, mind-expanding), ψυχεδελικός (mind expanding), ψευδαισθησιογόνος (consciousness-expanding, mind-expanding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pszichedelikus (mind-bending), tudatot kitágító, tudatosságot fokozó. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | psichedelico (consciousness-expanding, mind-expanding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | サイクロイド歯車 (cyclocytidine, cycloidal gear teeth, cyclometer, cyclon, cyclosporine, cyclotron, psycho, psychoanalysis, psychodrama, psychogalvanometer, psychokinesis, psychological, psychology, psychosomatics, psychotherapist, psychotherapy, Saigon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | サイケデリック , サイケ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ychedelicpsay psicodélico, psicadélico (consciousness-expanding, mind-expanding), droga psicodélica. (various references) яркий (bright, clear, colorable, colorful, colourful, distinct, flare, gay, glaring, glowing, lucid, pictorial, picturesque, plain, shiny, showy, sinewy, sunbright, vivid, zippy), броский (snazzy, splashy, striking), психотомиметический. (various references) psihodeličan. (various references) psicodélico (psychodelic). (various references) sanrı yaratan, hayal gördüren (mind-bending, mind-blowing). (various references) ma tuý, ở trạng thái lâng lâng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | psykhe-. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "psychedelic": psychedelically, psychedelics. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "psychedelic": prepsychedelic. (additional references) | |
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"Psychedelic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: psycedelic, psychadelic, psychadellic, psychaedelic, psychdelic, psychedalic, psychedellic, psychedlic, psychidelic, psychodelic, psychudelic, pychedelic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "psychedelic" (pronounced sī'kude"lik) |
| 4 | -e" l i k | allelic, angelic, relic. |
| 3 | -l i k | acrylic, alcoholic, Alec, anabolic, anencephalic, bucolic, catholic, diastolic, frolic, gallic, garlic, hydraulic, hydrophilic, hyperbolic, idyllic, italic, melancholic, metabolic, metallic, nonalcoholic, nonpublic, parabolic, pedophilic, phallic, phenolic, public, shashlik, symbolic, vitriolic, workaholic. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-e-e-h-i-l-p-s-y" | |
-2 letters: chelipeds, epicycles. | |
-3 letters: cepheids, cheesily, cheliped, chiseled, eclipsed, epicycle, pedicels, pedicles, speedily. | |
-4 letters: cepheid, chicles, chields, childes, cliched, cliches, cylices, deciles, dehisce, delphic, eclipse, eyelids, helices, lichees, lychees, pedicel, pedicle, psyched, psychic, seedily, specced, speiled, spieled, spliced, sylphic, sylphid, ycleped. | |
-5 letters: ceiled, cheeps, cheesy, chicle, chicly, chides, chield, chiels, childe, chiles, chisel, chyles, cicely. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-d-e-e-h-i-l-p-s-y" | |
+1 letter: psychedelics. | |
+3 letters: phencyclidines, prepsychedelic. | |
+4 letters: psychedelically. | |
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