hallucinogen

Other forms of hallucinogen

plural

hallucinogens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hallucinogen

What does hallucinogen mean?

hallucinogen means "a psychoactive drug that induces hallucinations or altered sensory experiences".

How many syllables are in hallucinogen?

hallucinogen has 5 syllables and divides as hal-lu-ci-no-gen under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hallucinogen?

Close synonyms include hallucinogenic drug, psychedelic drug, psychodelic drug. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hallucinogen a common word?

hallucinogen is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.