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delirious

adjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//dɪˈlɪə̯.ɹi.əs//

Being in the state of delirium.

adjective

  1. 1

    Being in the state of delirium.

    ⁠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?

  2. 2

    Having uncontrolled excitement; ecstatic.

    delirious with joy

Etymology

From delirium + -ous; see also Latin delirus (“silly, doting, crazy”).

Forms

comparative
more delirious
superlative
most delirious
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).