delirious
English
Etymology
From delirium + -ous; see also Latin delirus (“silly, doting, crazy”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈlɪɹɪ.əs/, /dɪˈlɪəɹɪ.əs/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəs
Adjective
delirious (comparative more delirious, superlative most delirious)
- (medicine) Being in the state of delirium.
- 1872, Simon Mohler Landis, The Social War, Chapter III: Deacon Stew raves at Lucinda's Love for Victor:
- […] the angelic form of a creature whose very existence was a gigantic balm of Gilead to the lacerated body of our hero, and, in a half delirious state of mind, he felt like leaping mountains to raise prostrate female forms, and to become blessed with hymeneal joys of the most glorious character; but, his imagination soon forsook him, and a raging fever, accompanied by the most violent deadly delirium, ensued, which lasted a fortnight.
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- Having uncontrolled excitement; ecstatic.
Derived terms
- deliriously
- deliriousness
Translations
being in the state of delirium
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having uncontrolled excitement; ecstatic
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