HALLUCINATORY Synonyms: 74 Similar and Opposite Words

hallucinatory

adjective

Definition of hallucinatory

as in surreal

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Recent Examples of hallucinatory Unlike Magazine Dreams, the modest but satisfying Test avoids the lurid descent into violent psychodrama that swerved into hallucinatory Taxi Driver territory and undercut that film’s integrity. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026 What results is a hallucinatory exploration of power, control, desire, and — that hottest of fascinated feelings right now — obsession. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 3 June 2026 Some of the poet’s most hallucinatory imagery seeps through the corners of the screen. — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 2 June 2026 The resulting feature is enigmatic and lightly campy, strange and hallucinatory, taking place in a liminal futuristic city that’s clogged with thick mist and terrorized by a violent serial killer named Leather Man. — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 18 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for hallucinatory

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Adjective

According to Schaffer, just as surreal as directing the former president was chatting with him during the downtime of the four-hour shoot.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026
With iconic natural landmarks like El Capitan and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park has long been at the top of my travel list, and my first visit felt surreal.

— Mae Hamilton, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of surreal

Adjective

Over the course of one phantasmagoric evening, Robin witnesses events that prefigure the Revolutionary War.

— John Swansburg, The Atlantic, 15 June 2026
Right around that time, the Venice Film Festival saw Mamoru Hosoda’s anime epic Scarlet, in which the Danish prince became an ass-kicking Danish princess consigned to a hellish and phantasmagoric underworld.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026

Definition of phantasmagoric

Adjective

Conversations need grounding as intuitive Moon in your 3rd House of Communication opposes illusory Neptune in your 9th House of Travel and Learning, so facts and visions compete.

— Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 22 June 2026
That is, real, not merely illusory, measures, so that the allure to breach peace for imagined gains is overshadowed.

— Keith Tidman, Baltimore Sun, 15 June 2026

Definition of illusory

Adjective

This isn’t callousness or delusive optimism but, rather, a rebellion against the suffocating expectation that the elderly have foreclosed the possibility of joy.

— Hillary Kelly, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
To separate art from its historical framework is futile, and to reject it in an effort to censor past violence is a delusive act of virtue signaling.

— WSJ, WSJ, 5 July 2022

Definition of delusive

Adjective

Other use cases for Google Earth’s image generation include visualizing future or imaginary projects.

— Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 31 July 2026
For years, Ryan Coogler, Chadwick Boseman and Marvel Comics have brought to the world Wakanda, an imaginary African nation powerful enough to control its resources, protect its culture and build its future without the rest of the world’s permission.

— Richard Fowler, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of imaginary

Adjective

Today, Paine’s delusional sense of the possible has resurfaced in the enthusiasm of many young people for socialism.

— George F. Will, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2026
So much so, in fact, that cybersecurity researchers warn that criminals can easily weaponize delusional AI outputs to spread malware throughout the internet.

— Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 29 July 2026

Definition of delusional

Adjective

Schools received an email from a fictitious two-parent household with both a mother and father interested in enrolling a child.

— Kristy Buzard, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2026
Twenty years later, Hughes would shoot some of his films at his alma mater, which would serve as the fictitious Shermer High School in the hits The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

— Al Shipley, SPIN, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of fictitious

Adjective

Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, and Nick Jonas will all reprise their roles as the fictional Gray brothers in the band Connect 3, with comedian Sherry Cola also joining the cast.

— Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 5 Aug. 2026
Bud Billiken, the page’s fictional editor/mascot described as the guardian and protector of children, was invented by Abbott and the Defender’s executive editor Lucius Harper.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of fictional

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