delirious

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈlɪə̯.ɹi.əs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ɪəɹiəs

Adjective

delirious (comparative more delirious, superlative most delirious)

(medicine) Being in the state of delirium.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, 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.
Having uncontrolled excitement; ecstatic.

Derived terms

Translations

being in the state of delirium

Azerbaijani: sayaqlamaq, sayıqlamaq
Bulgarian: бълнуващ (bg) (bǎlnuvašt)
Esperanto: delira
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: çılgına dönmüş, sayıklayan

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