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psychedelically

psychedelically adverb: in a psychedelic manner.

Adverb

psychedelically (comparative more psychedelically, superlative most psychedelically)

  1. In a psychedelic manner.
    • Iraq may be turning into a quagmire and civil war like Vietnam, but the current war has not inspired talk of generationwide rebellion (perhaps because there’s no draft to pit young against old) or any colorful, psychedelically defiant counterculture.2007 January 2, Jon Pareles, “Pop Music and the War: The Sound of Resignation”, in New York Times

Forms of psychedelically

comparativemore psychedelically
superlativemost psychedelically

Origin of psychedelically

From psychedelic + -ally.

Questions about psychedelically

What does psychedelically mean?
Psychedelically means in a psychedelic manner.
What part of speech is psychedelically?
Psychedelically is an adverb.

Words near psychedelically in the dictionary

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

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