hallucinating
/həˈluːsəˌneɪtɪŋ/
adjective
- Experiencing hallucinations; seeing or sensing things that are not real.
- Paramedics found the hiker dehydrated and hallucinating under the hot sun.
- In the movie, the hallucinating character sees strange creatures everywhere.
- The hallucinating patient kept talking to someone who wasn't in the room.
- Used informally to describe something that is extremely surprising, impressive, or hard to believe.
- The view from the mountaintop was hallucinating — I couldn't believe my eyes.
- She gave a hallucinating performance that left the audience speechless.
- The special effects in that film were absolutely hallucinating.
Synonyms
verb
- To see, hear, or feel something that is not actually present, usually because of a medical condition, drug use, or mental illness.
- The doctor explained that the medication could cause patients to hallucinate vivid images.
- Some people hallucinate when they have a high fever or are very dehydrated.
- After the fever spiked, the patient started hallucinating and thought there were spiders on the wall.
- To imagine or believe something that is not real or true, often in a playful or exaggerated way.
- He's hallucinating if he believes he can finish that project in one day.
- She joked that her friend must be hallucinating when he claimed to have seen a bear in the backyard.
- If you think I'm going to clean the whole house by myself, you're hallucinating.