Usually means: Altering perception, consciousness, and mood.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. psychedelic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. psychedelic: Merriam-Webster
  3. psychedelic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. psychedelic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. psychedelic: Collins English Dictionary
  6. psychedelic: Vocabulary.com
  7. Psychedelic, psychedelic: Wordnik
  8. psychedelic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. psychedelic: Wiktionary
  10. psychedelic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. psychedelic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. psychedelic: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. psychedelic: Dictionary.com
  14. psychedelic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. psychedelic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Psychedelic (disambiguation), Psychedelic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. psychedelic: Rhymezone
  18. psychedelic: FreeDictionary.org
  19. psychedelic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. psychedelic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. psychedelic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. psychedelic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Psychedelic: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. psychedelic: Medical dictionary
  6. Psychedelic: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Psychedelic: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology

(Note: See psychedelically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Of, containing, generating, or reminiscent of drug-induced hallucinations, distortions of perception, altered awareness, etc.
adjective:  (of graphics, etc.) Having bright colours, abstract shapes, etc. reminiscent of drug-induced hallucinations or distortions of perception.
noun:  Any psychoactive substance (such as LSD or psilocybin) which, when consumed, causes perceptual changes (sometimes erratic and uncontrollable), visual hallucination, and altered awareness of the body and mind.

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