| 单词 | psychedelic |
| 释义 | psychedelic (once / 13432 pages) adj Psychedelic originally described drugs — especially LSD — that made users experience bizarre, mind-bending sounds and images, real and imagined. Soon psychedelic was also used for music, art, and colors that seemed to fit a drug-induced haze. Psychedelic art is wild, vivid, and might make you a little dizzy, like an electric pink tie-dyed t-shirt or a scene of phosphorescent green poodles in high heels, hiking the Alps against a purple-plaid sky. Psychedelic rock is heavy on electronic sounds and intricate instrumentation, in the style the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, and the Beatles’ Sgt. Peppers album. The word, dating from the 1950s, comes from the Greek psyche, “soul, mind” and delos “clear” — just what psychedelic isn’t. WORD FAMILYpsychedelic: psychedelia, psychedelically USAGE EXAMPLES“They just sat there in silence, gazing at the barren canyon walls,” Mr. Lattin wrote in “The Harvard Psychedelic Club.” New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) Three cancer patients explain how a psychedelic drug eased their fears. Washington Post(Dec 25, 2016) The original was already a masterpiece of art and engineering, melding a trance soundtrack with psychedelic explosions of light and color. The New Yorker(Dec 24, 2016) 1adj producing distorted sensory perceptions and feelings or altered states of awareness or sometimes states resembling psychosis psychedelic drugs like psilocybin and mescaline Syn psychoactive, psychotropic affecting the mind or mood or other mental processes 2adj (of a mental state) characterized by intense and distorted perceptions and hallucinations and feelings of euphoria or sometimes despair a psychedelic experience Syn agitated troubled emotionally and usually deeply 3adj having the vivid colors and bizarre patterns associated with psychedelic states a psychedelic painting Syn colorful, colourful having striking color |
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