Delirious

Word DELIRIOUS
Character 9
Hyphenation de lir i ous
Pronunciations /dɪˈlɪəɹɪəs/

Definitions and meanings of "Delirious"

What do we mean by delirious?

Of, suffering from, or characteristic of delirium. adjective

Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; ecstatic. adjective

Wandering in mind; having ideas and fancies that are wild, fantastic, or incoherent; light-headed; flighty; raving.

Characterized by or proceeding from wild excitement, exaggerated emotion, or rapture: as, delirious joy.

Having a delirium; wandering in mind; light-headed; insane; raving; wild adjective

Being in the state of delirium. adjective

Having uncontrolled excitement; ecstatic. adjective

Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion adjective

Experiencing delirium adjective

Being in the state of delirium.

Having uncontrolled excitement; ecstatic.

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The word "delirious" in example sentences

"I am delirious from a hard day's travel, and the thought that I, a Cimmerian born born in battle under the indifferent eyes of Crom, who mocks the Northern tribes as they wage war among themselves, I, who am a creature of rolling hills and mountains, could be your neighbor, here, in this swamp --" Conan paused and took in the withered creature before him, and for a moment his face was solemn. ❋ Cromsblood (2009)

I want this town to melt in delirious euphoria over a World Championship, and celebrate it every day for a year -- New Orleans style. ❋ Unknown (2007)

His biggest worry was Specialist Moreland, who was delirious from a dangerous head wound. ❋ Unknown (1968)

Before long a carnival of color began which I can only describe as delirious, intoxicating, a hardly bearable joy, a tender anguish, an indescribable yearning, an unearthly music, rich in love and worship. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Their responses to the examiner or staff are perfunctory and vague, and they may appear to be in an excited delirium, which Kraepelin termed delirious mania. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

After a while we shall have a letter, which once upon a time we'd have called delirious -- don't know that we could read such a thing now, for the first time, without incredulous laughter -- which Mr. Proctor permitted to be published in ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)

And when I say "delirious," I sometimes mean it literally. ❋ Shunn (2008)

We have to fight this state of existence where people live as though they are 'prisoned in the bars of a single jail', where our people seem to be 'delirious' from malaria, TB, AIDS and many preventable and curable diseases. ❋ Unknown (2000)

They made love in the willow grove, questions of honor put aside, promises broken without so much as a look back, and at the end of it Susan discovered there was more than sweetness; there was a kind of delirious clinching of the nerves that began in the part of her that had opened before him like a flower; it began there and then filled her entire body. ❋ King, Stephen (1997)

Now she saw the surface of milk and honey, where newly married couples lolled in a reasonable approximation of the kind of delirious happiness she routinely provided for Veleno. ❋ Anthony, Piers (1995)

He had crept down the long avenue and climbing the iron fence had perched on the rail and watched the deer feeding by the light of the moon until all the sorrow had been chased away and his baby heart was singing with a kind of delirious happiness that he did not understand and that gave way in its turn to a natural childish enjoyment of an adventure that was palpably forbidden. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The author, suffering from fever, wrote this work whilst in a kind of delirious condition; _Ivanhoe_ was printed before the recovery of the author, who, on reading it at a later date, had not the slightest recollection that it was his own production. ❋ Th. Pascal (N/A)

He had forgotten his desire for death, his heart was leaping with a kind of delirious happiness that found nothing but fierce enjoyment in the scene around him. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

There were times when the thought filled him with a kind of delirious pride: times, again, when he felt a grateful humility that made him long to fall down and worship this goddess who had stooped to him. ❋ Unknown (1928)

'science fiction' is scientifically and technologically unsound, and could best be described as delirious - but that is precisely why it is directly relevant to a world that has increasingly come to be 'indistinguishable from science fiction.' ❋ Unknown (2009)

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