delirious
Pathology. affected with or characteristic of delirium.
wild with excitement, enthusiasm, etc.: She was delirious with joy at the news.
Origin of delirious
1Other words for delirious
Other words from delirious
- de·lir·i·ous·ly, adverb
- de·lir·i·ous·ness, noun
- non·de·lir·i·ous, adjective
- non·de·lir·i·ous·ly, adverb
- non·de·lir·i·ous·ness, noun
- un·de·lir·i·ous, adjective
- un·de·lir·i·ous·ly, adverb
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How to use delirious in a sentence
Now that her career has been suddenly mooted, her own mother has sunk into a depression and she’s all but delirious with grief, Kimberly is agitating for influence in the Brown administration.
FX’s Epic Y: The Last Man Adaptation Gets Off to a Shaky But Intriguing Start | Judy Berman | September 8, 2021 | TimeOnce the enslaved man’s neck was affected, he became delirious.
How the Origins of Epidemiology Are Linked to the Transatlantic Slave Trade | Jim Downs | September 2, 2021 | TimeIt didn’t take long for them to end up in the worst kind of scenario—lost, exhausted, and increasingly delirious.
A Climbing Disaster Interrupted by a Love Story | Outside Editors | February 11, 2021 | Outside OnlineHe was delirious, so she and another nurse sedated him and tied him down, which kept him alive.
“Those of Us Who Don’t Die Are Going to Quit”: A Crush of Patients, Dwindling Supplies and the Nurse Who Lost Hope | by J. David McSwane | December 30, 2020 | ProPublicaPatients can end up delirious and in pain, weakened by an unremitting torrent of bloody diarrhea.
When Evolution Is Infectious - Issue 90: Something Green | Moises Velasquez-Manoff | September 30, 2020 | Nautilus
He became delirious, his heartbeat grew ragged, his blood teemed with the virus, and his lungs, liver and kidneys began to fail.
The Daily Beast’s Best Longreads, Dec 8-14, 2014 | William Boot | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMost of the Atari employees I saw projected an aura of almost delirious bliss.
I was sort of delirious in the middle of that big thing happening.
All Eyes on Anjelica Huston: The Legendary Actress on Love, Abuse, and Jack Nicholson | Alex Suskind | November 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDuring those 12 days that we shot, I became really ill, so I was having that delirious, waking dream feeling anyway.
Carrie Coon on ‘The Leftovers,’ That Wild Finale, Her Apocalyptic Visions, and ‘Gone Girl’ | Marlow Stern | September 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe contracts Kharga Fever, which renders him delirious and causes him gradually to lose his eyesight.
Harangues against the king and the aristocrats rendered them delirious with rage.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottRose Maylie had rapidly grown worse, and before midnight was delirious.
Oliver Twist, Vol. II (of 3) | Charles DickensAnd that your next clear recollection is of lying here, where you were brought after being found delirious by the police?
The Bag of Diamonds | George Manville FennAnd all this while, burning with fever, Ella Bedford lay delirious, and with a nurse at her bedside night and day.
By Birth a Lady | George Manville FennPatients having this disease sometimes grow delirious and violent, and the priest should be careful how he handles them.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin Malley
British Dictionary definitions for delirious
/ (dɪˈlɪrɪəs) /
affected with delirium
wildly excited, esp with joy or enthusiasm
Derived forms of delirious
- deliriously, adverb
- deliriousness, noun
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