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Definition: Delirious |
DeliriousAdjective1. Experiencing delirium. 2. Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "delirious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references) |
Note: Delirious \De*lir"i*ous\, adjective. [From Delirium.]. (references) |
Synonyms: DeliriousSynonyms: excited (adj), frantic (adj), hallucinating (adj), mad (adj), unrestrained (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Feverish, febrile, hysterical; delirious, mad, moody, maggoty-headed. |
Insanity | Maniacal; delirious, lightheaded, incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk; delusional, hallucinatory. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Delirious |
| English words defined with "delirious": Delirant, deliriously, Dwaule ♦ excited ♦ Floccillation, frantic ♦ Gyte ♦ Idle-headed ♦ Out of one's head ♦ Phrenetical ♦ Strait-jacket ♦ unrestrained. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "delirious": Gyte. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Delirious (1991) Eddie Murphy Delirious (1983) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | See, Jack, he said, his manner wild and delirious. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Berserk; crazed; crazy; delirious; deranged; intemperate; mad-dog; raging; sick; wild. | | Berserk; beside oneself; blazing; carried away; convulsive; crazed; crazy; delirious; distracted; distraught; emotional; excited; agitated; fiery; frantic; frenzied; fuming; furious; impassioned; impetuous; incensed; irrepressible; mad; maddened; nervous. |
| Blither; blithering; idiot; idiotic; incomprehensible; insane; institutionalized; crazy; crazed; out of your mind; out of his mind; out of my mind; mentally ill; aberrant; bewildered; confused; crazed; delirious; demented; deranged; deviant; deviate; ding. | | Crazy; laugh; insane; insanity; bonkers; cracked; crazed; cuckoo; daft; delirious; demented; deranged; lunatic; mad; maniacal; mental; nuts; nutty; psycho; screw loose; screwball; screwy; unbalanced; unglued; unhinged; unzipped; wacky; whacko. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They were delirious with joy. |
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| "Delirious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.12% of the time. "Delirious" is used about 114 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.12% | 113 | 30,464 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 114 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "delirious": be delirious ♦ be delirious with ♦ be delirious with joy ♦ delirious with ♦ delirious with joy. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "delirious": half-delirious, near-delirious. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "delirious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | në kllapi, në jerm (raving), i marrë (Batty, crack-brained, crazy, Daffy, demented, deranged, dippy, insane, mad, madman, phrenetic, wildcat, zany). (various references) | |
Arabic | هذياني, بطاحي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | който не е на себе си (light-headed), несвързан (confused, desultory, disconnected, discontinuous, discrete, disjointed, incoherent, inconsequent, irrelative, loose, rambling, rhapsodic, scrappy, unconnected, unrelated), бълнуващ (raving). (various references) | |
Chinese | 神智不清. (various references) | |
Czech | třeštit (be delirious, rave), fantazírovat (be delirious, daydream), blouznit (be delirious, daydream, enthuse, ramble, rave, wander), být bez sebe radostí (be delirious with joy, be on a high, beside oneself with joy). (various references) | |
Danish | deliroes. (various references) | |
Dutch | van een delirium. (various references) | |
Esperanto | delira. (various references) | |
Faeroese | tosa í ørviti (be delirious). (various references) | |
Farsi | پرت گو, هذیانی (Fey). (various references) | |
Finnish | houraileva. (various references) | |
French | délirant (delirious with). (various references) | |
German | irreredend. (various references) | |
Greek | παραληρών. (various references) | |
Hebrew | "מים (confounded). (various references) | |
Hungarian | félrebeszélő. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tergila-gila (crazy for, doting), mengigau (ramble, to dream aloud, to rave). (various references) | |
Italian | delirante (raving, wandering). (various references) | |
Manx | rouaillagh (adrift, devious, erring, incoherent, itinerant, prowler, rambling), branlaadagh (dreamy, dreamy person, raver). (various references) | |
Norwegian | feberfantasere. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eliriousday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | delirante (frenzied, light-headed, raving). (various references) | |
Romanian | delirant (frantic, light-headed, raving, wild), nebun (bad, bedlamite, bishop, brain sick, cracked, crazy, daft, demented, demoniac, distracted, distraught, extravagant, fool, foolish, frantic, frenzied, infatuated, insane, lunatic, mad, mad about, madcap, madman, maniac, maniacial, moon-struck, potty, raving, reckless, unruly, wild), care delireazã. (various references) | |
Russian | в бреду бредовый, находящийся в бреду, бредовый, бессвязный (disconnected, incoherent, rambling, rigmarole, skimble-skamble, stray, unconnected). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | deliričan, zanesen (enthralled, rapturous), lud od sreće (cock-a-hoop), bunovan (muzzy). (various references) | |
Spanish | delirante (frenzied, light-headed, rapturous, raving). (various references) | |
Swedish | yrande (raving), vild (coltish, ding-dong, ferae naturae, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, frenetic, haggard, headlong, madcap, phrenetic, rampant, riotous, savage, truculant, truculent, untamed, wild, wildcat), gripen av yrsel. (various references) | |
Turkish | deli (Batty, bedlamite, bonkers, crackers, cracky, crazy, daft, dement, demented, demon, demoniac, demoniacal, dippy, distracted, distraught, gaga, insane, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, mad about, madman, madwoman, meshuggah, not all there, nutcase, nuts, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, out of one's senses, phrenetic, possessed, potty, touched), sayıklayan (light-headed, wandering), hezeyan geçiren, çılgına dönmüş (berserk, beside oneself), çılgın (berserk, bonkers, crackpot, crazed, crazy, demented, demon, demoniac, desperado, distracted, foolhardy, frenetic, frenzied, insane, kook, kooky, lunatic, mad, maniacal, moonstruck, nut, phrenetic, possessed, raving, rip roaring, ripsnorter, scatty, wild). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | що марить, гарячковий (feverish, feverous, hectic, pyretic), несамовитий (amok, amuck, ecstatic, frantic, heartbreaking, heartrending, irresponsible, non compos, outrageous, passionate, phrenetic, violent), божевільний (addle-brained, addle-pated, batchy, bedlam, brainsick, crack-brained, crackpot, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daft, demented, deranged, frenetic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, moonstruck, non compos, nuts, nutty, possessed, rabid, scatty). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vô nghĩa cu"ng, mê sảng, cu"ng nhiệt; điên cu"ng. (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arrepticium, phreneticus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "delirious": deliriously, deliriousness, deliriousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Delirious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: delearious, delerious, deletrious, delireous, delirous, dellerious, desirious, dilirious, eximious. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "delirious" (pronounced duli"rēus) |
| 5 | -i" r ē u s | deleterious, imperious, mysterious, serious. |
| 4 | -r ē u s | curious, denarius, furious, glorious, gregarious, hilarious, illustrious, industrious, inglorious, injurious, laborious, lugubrious, meritorious, nefarious, notorious, pancreas, penurious, precarious, Sartorius, spurious, various, vicarious, victorious, vitreous. |
| 3 | -ē u s | acrimonious, alias, amphibious, aqueous, bilious, coleus, commodious, contemporaneous, copious, courteous, devious, dubious, envious, erroneous, extraneous, fastidious, felonious, gaseous, harmonious, hideous, homogeneous, igneous, ignominious, impervious, insidious, instantaneous, invidious, lascivious, luxurious, melodious, miscellaneous, nucleus, oblivious, obsequious, obvious, odious, percutaneous, previous, punctilious, radius, sanctimonious, simultaneous, spontaneous, studious, supercilious, tedious, unceremonious. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-l-o-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: idoliser, siluroid. | |
-2 letters: doilies, idolise, lousier, silurid, soilure, soldier, solider. | |
-3 letters: dories, dorsel, douser, idlers, iodise, irides, irised, lories, louder, louies, loured, loused, oilers, oilier, oldies, oriels, reoils, resold, roiled, roused, sidler, siloed, slider, soiled, solder, solidi, souled, soured, uredos. | |
-4 letters: deils, delis, diols, dirls, doers, doles, doser, douse, dries, druse, duels, dulse, dures. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-l-o-r-s-u" | |
+2 letters: deliriously. | |
+3 letters: modularities, multistoried, perfidiously, subeditorial. | |
+4 letters: deliriousness, radionuclides. | |
+5 letters: diverticuloses, diverticulosis, polyneuritides, radiolucencies, reduplications, revolutionised, ribonucleoside, ridiculousness, trinucleotides. | |
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