Meanings
- uncountableentertainmentA genre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, blues, electronic music, folk music, jazz, and the hippie counterculture of the 1960s.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA genre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, blues, electronic music, folk music, jazz, and the hippie counterculture of the 1960s.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna musical style that emerged in the 1960s; rock music inspired by or related to drug-induced experience
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan rock psicodèlic
- rock psicodèlicgenre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, etc.
Dutch psychedelische rock
- psychedelische rockgenre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, etc.
French rock psychédélique
- rock psychédéliquegenre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, etc.
Polish rock psychodeliczny, psychodelia
- rock psychodelicznygenre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, etc.
- psychodeliagenre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, etc.
Portuguese rock psicodélico
- rock psicodélicogenre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, etc.
Russian психодели́ческий рок
- психодели́ческий рок (psixodelíčeskij rok)genre of rock music influenced by psychedelia, etc.
Cite this entry
psychedelic rock. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/psychedelic%20rock
“psychedelic rock.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/psychedelic%20rock. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “psychedelic rock,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/psychedelic%20rock.
Source: psychedelic rock on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.