hallucinatory
adjective
hal·lu·ci·na·to·ry
hə-ˈlü-sə-nə-ˌtȯr-ē 
-ˈlüs-nə-
1
: tending to produce hallucination
hallucinatory drugs
2
: resembling, involving, or being a hallucination
hallucinatory dreams
a hallucinatory figure
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Even before Lee’s mother, Ruth (Alicia Witt), urges her daughter to keep saying her prayers to protect her from evil, Perkins has begun insinuating hints of religious horror into the film’s hallucinatory mood.
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 July 2024
The vaguely hallucinatory near-consensus formed that Harris, little more than a gaffe-prone afterthought for most of the Biden Presidency, was now perhaps the prow of the Republic’s ship.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 5 July 2024
Yong Yang, 40, was winning that battle, according to loved ones, when police in May forced open the door of his parents’ Koreatown home and found him in the midst of a hallucinatory episode with a kitchen knife in his hand.
—Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
There are private planes and limos and cocaine and fireworks and dancing and morning-after IV drips; Baker charges through these scenes in an almost hallucinatory frenzy, sweeping us along the way that Ani herself has been swept along.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 May 2024
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 July 2024
The vaguely hallucinatory near-consensus formed that Harris, little more than a gaffe-prone afterthought for most of the Biden Presidency, was now perhaps the prow of the Republic’s ship.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 5 July 2024
Yong Yang, 40, was winning that battle, according to loved ones, when police in May forced open the door of his parents’ Koreatown home and found him in the midst of a hallucinatory episode with a kitchen knife in his hand.
—Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
There are private planes and limos and cocaine and fireworks and dancing and morning-after IV drips; Baker charges through these scenes in an almost hallucinatory frenzy, sweeping us along the way that Ani herself has been swept along.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 May 2024
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hallucinatory
adjective
hal·lu·ci·na·to·ry
hə-ˈlü-sə-nə-ˌtōr-ē
-ˌtȯr-
1
: tending to produce hallucinations
2
: resembling, involving, or being a hallucination
Medical Definition
hallucinatory
adjective
hal·lu·ci·na·to·ry
hə-ˈlüs-ᵊn-ə-ˌtōr-ē, -ˈlüs-nə-, -ˌtȯr-
1
: tending to produce hallucinations
hallucinatory drugs
2
: resembling, involving, or being a hallucination
hallucinatory dreams
a hallucinatory figure
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