unhinged

English

Etymology 1

From unhinge +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

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Verb

unhinged

1. simple past and past participle of unhinge

Adjective

unhinged (comparative more unhinged, superlative most unhinged)

1. (figuratively, usually humorous) Mentally ill or unstable; deranged; insane.
   • 1998, SPIN, page 78:

     After the screening, a large crowd filled the street outside the theater, playing spot-the-sublebrity with some of the film's prime characters, including Nirvana photographer Alice Wheeler and Love's estranged (and notoriously unhinged) father.

   • 2022 October 10, Jenna Scherer, “House Of The Dragon drops its best episode yet”, in AV Club‎^[1]:

     While ruling is going relatively well for Alicent, motherhood isn’t; her sons have both grown up to be real pieces of shit. Aemond (now played by Ewan Mitchell) has grown from a bullied child into a bullying adult; and it’s obvious from one look into his single eye that the bullied kid we met six years ago has grown up to be the most unhinged kind of sadist.

Translations

mentally ill or unstable

• French: dérangé (fr), déséquilibré (fr), détraqué (fr)
• German: verwirrt (de), verstört (de)
• Plautdietsch: errsennich
• Russian: свихну́вшийся (ru) (svixnúvšijsja)
• Spanish: desquiciado (es)

Derived terms

• come unhinged

 

Etymology 2

From un- +‎ hinged.

Adjective

unhinged (comparative more unhinged, superlative most unhinged)

1. Not furnished with a hinge.

   an unhinged door

2. (philately, of a stamp) Not having ever been mounted using a stamp hinge.

Translations

not furnished with a hinge

• German: aus der Angel
• Spanish: desquiciado (es)

never been mounted using a stamp hinge

• German: ungefalzt

See also

• MUH
• MNH