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psychedelic

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Definition of psychedelic

adjective

  • relating to or denoting drugs (especially LSD) that produce hallucinations and apparent expansion of consciousness: psychedelic drugs the psychedelic culture of the 1960s
  • (of music, especially rock) characterized by musical experimentation and drug-related lyrics: a psychedelic cult band
  • having intense, vivid colours or a swirling abstract pattern:a psychedelic T-shirt

noun

  • a psychedelic drug.

Derivatives

psychedelically

adverb

Origin:

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

psychedelic in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of psychedelic in the US English dictionary