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psychedelic rock

psychedelic rock noun: a genre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, blues, electronic music, folk music, jazz, and the hippie counterculture of the 1960s.

Noun

psychedelic rock (uncountable)

  1. A genre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, blues, electronic music, folk music, jazz, and the hippie counterculture of the 1960s.
    Synonyms:
    acid rock, psych

Synonyms of psychedelic rock

Origin of psychedelic rock

The album The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators (1966) first used psychedelic to describe music; the band The 13th Floor Elevators is sometimes credited with coining the term.

Words formed from psychedelic rock

  • psych-rock
  • psy rock

Questions about psychedelic rock

What does psychedelic rock mean?
Psychedelic rock means a genre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, blues, electronic music, folk music, jazz, and the hippie counterculture of the 1960s.
What part of speech is psychedelic rock?
Psychedelic rock is a noun.

Words near psychedelic rock in the dictionary

  1. psychedelic folk
  2. psychedelic frogfish
  3. psychedelic frogfishes
  4. psychedelic mushroom
  5. psychedelic mushrooms
  6. psychedelic rock
  7. psychedelic soul
  8. psychedelically
  9. psychedelicize
  10. psychedelicized
  11. psychedelicizes

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