delirious

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈlɪɹɪ.əs/, /dɪˈlɪəɹɪ.əs/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəs

Adjective

delirious (comparative more delirious, superlative most delirious)

1. (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.

2. Having uncontrolled excitement; ecstatic.

Derived terms

• deliriously
• deliriousness

Translations

being in the state of delirium

• Azerbaijani: sayaqlamaq, sayıqlamaq
• Bulgarian: бълнуващ (bg) (bǎlnuvašt)
• Finnish: kuumeinen (fi), houraileva, houreinen (fi)
• German: deliriös (de)
• Hungarian: félrebeszél (hu)
• Italian: delirante (it)
• Marathi: उन्मादवायुपीडित (unmādvāyupīḍit)
• Plautdietsch: biesta
• Portuguese: delirante (pt)
• Spanish: delirante
• Turkish: delirmek (tr)

having uncontrolled excitement; ecstatic

• Finnish: haltioitunut, hurmioitunut
• Italian: delirante (it)
• Turkish: delice (tr)

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• Scottish Gaelic: ^{(please verify)} mearanach, ^{(please verify)} breisleachail