delirious
- Pathology. affected with or characteristic of delirium.
- wild with excitement, enthusiasm, etc.: She was delirious with joy at the news.
Origin of delirious
Synonyms for delirious
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desperately, furiously, crazily, passionately, violently, hastily, intensely, frantically, excitedly, recklessly, energetically, hysterically, insanely, dementedly, exceedingly, excessively, extremely, hard, irrationally, quicklyExamples from the Web for deliriously
Contemporary Examples of deliriously
Five-star reviews made me deliriously happy; three-star reviews crushingly sad.
The Communist Party presides calmly over a nation of deliriously happy citizens.
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Or, if not, then at least where it has been the most deliriously exploited.
I knew all this going in, but was too deliriously blinded by the extra-hot sex to really consider it.
Historical Examples of deliriously
Torchy is just as deliriously funny in these stories as he was in the previous book.
Torchy and VeeSewell Ford
For she was in love—she knew it now—wildly, deliriously, gloriously in love with Owen.
The Making of a SoulKathlyn Rhodes
She was too deliriously happy to speak, and the only words she could have said were, I love you, I love you.
Mrs. CraddockW. Somerset Maugham
That is to say, he was deliriously glad and he knew he ought not to be.
Nothing But the TruthFrederic S. Isham
For a time, we must believe, humanity then was deliriously bereft.
NonsenseorshipG. G. Putnam and Others
delirious
- affected with delirium
- wildly excited, esp with joy or enthusiasm
Word Origin and History for deliriously
delirious
delirious
(dĭ-lîr′ē-əs)- Of, suffering from, or characteristic of delirium.