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DELIRIOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion
Example:
a mad whirl of pleasure
Synonyms:
delirious; excited; frantic; mad; unrestrained
Classified under:
Similar:
wild (marked by extreme lack of restraint or control)
Derivation:
delirium (state of violent mental agitation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Experiencing delirium
Synonyms:
delirious; hallucinating
Classified under:
Similar:
ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)
Derivation:
delirium (state of violent mental agitation)
Context examples:
I was weeping wildly as I walked along my solitary way: fast, fast I went like one delirious.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Behind me as I passed from the flat I heard Holmes’s high, thin voice in some delirious chant.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To have surrendered to temptation; listened to passion; made no painful effort—no struggle;—but to have sunk down in the silken snare; fallen asleep on the flowers covering it; wakened in a southern clime, amongst the luxuries of a pleasure villa: to have been now living in France, Mr. Rochester's mistress; delirious with his love half my time—for he would—oh, yes, he would have loved me well for a while.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Is he delirious?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In a state between sleeping and waking, you noticed her entrance and her actions; but feverish, almost delirious as you were, you ascribed to her a goblin appearance different from her own: the long dishevelled hair, the swelled black face, the exaggerated stature, were figments of imagination; results of nightmare: the spiteful tearing of the veil was real: and it is like her.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
