delirious
English
editEtymology
editFrom delirium + -ous; see also Latin delirus (“silly, doting, crazy”).
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈlɪɹ.i.əs/, /dɪˈlɪə̯.ɹi.əs/ (Can we verify(+) this pronunciation?) (particularly: The syllable break of the first one can't possibly be right, otherwise non-rhotic dialects wouldn't pronounce the "r")
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəs
Adjective
editdelirious (comparative more delirious, superlative most delirious)
- (medicine) Being in the state of delirium.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XVI, page 26:
- Or has the shock, so harshly given,
[…] made me that delirious man
Whose fancy fuses old and new,
And flashes into false and true,
And mingles all without a plan?
- 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.
- Having uncontrolled excitement; ecstatic.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editbeing in the state of delirium
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having uncontrolled excitement; ecstatic
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