Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to hallucinate
Participle: hallucinated
Gerund: hallucinating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | hallucinate |
| you | hallucinate |
| he;she;it | hallucinates |
| we | hallucinate |
| you | hallucinate |
| they | hallucinate |
Perfect
| I | have hallucinated |
| you | have hallucinated |
| he;she;it | has hallucinated |
| we | have hallucinated |
| you | have hallucinated |
| they | have hallucinated |
Past
| I | hallucinated |
| you | hallucinated |
| he;she;it | hallucinated |
| we | hallucinated |
| you | hallucinated |
| they | hallucinated |
Pluperfect
| I | had hallucinated |
| you | had hallucinated |
| he;she;it | had hallucinated |
| we | had hallucinated |
| you | had hallucinated |
| they | had hallucinated |
Future
| I | will hallucinate |
| you | will hallucinate |
| he;she;it | will hallucinate |
| we | will hallucinate |
| you | will hallucinate |
| they | will hallucinate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have hallucinated |
| you | will have hallucinated |
| he;she;it | will have hallucinated |
| we | will have hallucinated |
| you | will have hallucinated |
| they | will have hallucinated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | hallucinate |
| you | hallucinate |
| he;she;it | hallucinate |
| we | hallucinate |
| you | hallucinate |
| they | hallucinate |
Perfect
| I | have hallucinated |
| you | have hallucinated |
| he;she;it | have hallucinated |
| we | have hallucinated |
| you | have hallucinated |
| they | have hallucinated |
Imperfect
| I | hallucinated |
| you | hallucinated |
| he;she;it | hallucinated |
| we | hallucinated |
| you | hallucinated |
| they | hallucinated |
Pluperfect
| I | had hallucinated |
| you | had hallucinated |
| he;she;it | had hallucinated |
| we | had hallucinated |
| you | had hallucinated |
| they | had hallucinated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would hallucinate |
| you | would hallucinate |
| he;she;it | would hallucinate |
| we | would hallucinate |
| you | would hallucinate |
| they | would hallucinate |
Perfect
| I | would have hallucinated |
| you | would have hallucinated |
| he;she;it | would have hallucinated |
| we | would have hallucinated |
| you | would have hallucinated |
| they | would have hallucinated |
Imperative
| you | hallucinate |
| we | Let's hallucinate |
| you | hallucinate |
Verbs conjugated like 'hallucinate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'hallucinate'
balbucinate,
alluviate,
calcinate,
illucidate,
illuminate,
abacinate,
accuminate,
acuminate,
agglutinate,
alleviate,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1604, "deceive," from L.
alucinatus, later
hallucinatus, pp. of
alucinari "wander (in the mind), dream," probably from Gk.
alyein, Attic
halyein "be distraught," probably related to
alasthai "wander about." The L. ending probably was influenced by
vaticinari "to prophecy," also "to rave." Sense of "to have illusions" is from 1652.
Hallucination in the pathological/psychological sense of "seeing or hearing something which is not there" is first recorded 1646; distinct from
illusion in not necessarily involving a false belief.
Hallucinogen "drug which induces hallucinations" is first recorded 1954;
hallucinogenic (adj.) in this sense is from 1952.
2. First attested in 1604; borrowed from Latin hallūcinātus, alternative form of alūcinātus, perfect active participle of alucinor (“to dream”); see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Verbs referencing "hallucinate"
Arabic
هلوس.
Sample Sentences
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In case you were wondering, the yahoo url above doesn’t actually exist, the model just hallucinated it. [2015 May 21, Andrej Karpathy, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks”, in Andrej Karpathy blog:]
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Despite maintaining plausible general linguistic capabilities, dialogue models are still unable to fully discern facts and may instead hallucinate factually invalid information. […] Broadly speaking, we say that a neural dialogue system is guilty of hallucinating whenever it generates a factual sentence that is not supported by a valid path in a k-hop subgraph G k c ⊂ G of the original KG anchored around a context entity c. […] The first module flags and masks out hallucinated entities in an existing response and can be trained offline. [2021 September 14, Nouha Dziri, Andrea Madotto, Osmar Zaiane, Avishek Joey Bose, “Neural Path Hunter: Reducing Hallucination in Dialogue Systems via Path Grounding”, in arXiv:2104.08455 [cs], →DOI, archived from the original on 12 Jan 2023:]
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Rankin sanctioned Ayala $3,000 and kicked him off the lawsuit after the lawyer admitted incorporating the hallucinated AI-generated cases in the brief. Morgan and Goody were sanctioned $1,000 each. [2025 February 10, Debra Cassens Weiss, “No. 42 law firm by head count sanctioned over fake case citations generated by AI”, in ABA Journal, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2025:]