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Definition: Unhinged |
UnhingedAdjective1. Affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unhinged" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Unhinged I am quite unhinged. My nerves are shaken, my equilibrium of mind is disturbed; I am like a door which has lost one of its hinges. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: UnhingedSynonyms: brainsick (adj), crazy (adj), demented (adj), distracted (adj), disturbed (adj), mad (adj), sick (adj), unbalanced (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Failure | Frustrated, crossed, unhinged, disconcerted dashed; thrown off one's balance, thrown on one's back, thrown on one's beam ends; unhorsed, in a sorry plight; hard hit. |
Impotence | Paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless; emasculate, disjointed; out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done up, dead beat, exhausted, demoralized; graveled; (in difficulty); helpless, unfriended, fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf. |
Insanity | Adjective: insane, mad, lunatic,loony; crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained; touched, tetched; off one's head. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Unhinged |
| English words defined with "unhinged": Off the hooks ♦ Unhingement. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Gomez, last night -- you were unhinged. You were like some desperate, howling demon (The Addams Family; writing credit: Caroline Thompson) Can we for two seconds forget the fact that you are completely unhinged for 2 seconds and talk about my need for teenaged normalcy (10 Things I Hate About You; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz; Kirsten Smith) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Unhinged (1998) | |
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 | 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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| "Unhinged" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 60.87% of the time. "Unhinged" is used about 23 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 60.87% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 39.13% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 23 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
unhinged | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "unhinged"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | gestört (broken, deranged, disrupted, disturbed, poor, troubled, unbalanced). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tébolyodott (crazed, demented, maniacal, unbalanced). (various references) | |
Italian | svitato (nutty, screwball, screwy). (various references) | |
Manx | jeh'n joushan. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ingedunhay.(various references) | |
Romanian | dezechilibrat (crazy, distempered, unbalanced). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | izglavljen. (various references) | |
Swedish | ur gängorna, rubbad (crazy, deranged, distempered). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Unhinged" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Buchinger, Ehninger, unhinger, unhingle, untinged, unzinged. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unhinged" (pronounced unhi"njd) |
| 5 | -h i" n j d | hinged. |
| 4 | -i" n j d | cringed, infringed, singed. |
| 3 | -n j d | arranged, avenged, changed, deranged, lunged, estranged, exchanged, expunged, plunged, prearranged, ranged, rearranged, scrounged, shortchanged, sponged, unchallenged, unchanged. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-h-i-n-n-u" | |
-1 letter: enduing, unhinge. | |
-2 letters: ending, ginned, gunned, hinged, nighed, undine. | |
-3 letters: deign, dinge, ennui, guide, hinge, indue, inned, neigh, nudge, nudie. | |
-4 letters: deni, dine, ding, dune, dung, genu, gied, gien, gude, guid, hide, hied, hind, hued, huge, hung, nide, nigh, nine, nude, unde. | |
-5 letters: den, die, dig, din, due, dug, duh, dui, dun, edh, end, eng. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-h-i-n-n-u" | |
+1 letter: unheeding. | |
+2 letters: thundering. | |
+3 letters: enshrouding, headhunting, ungarnished, unthreading. | |
+4 letters: dehumanizing, guanethidine, thunderingly. | |
+5 letters: guanethidines, undercharging, underclothing, undershooting, underwhelming, unenlightened, unhomogenized. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Sounds 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
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