adjective
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affected with delirium
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wildly excited, esp with joy or enthusiasm
Other Word Forms
- deliriously adverb
- deliriousness noun
- nondelirious adjective
- nondeliriously adverb
- nondeliriousness noun
- undelirious adjective
- undeliriously adverb
Etymology
Origin of delirious
First recorded in 1590–1600; deliri(um) + -ous
Example Sentences
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She was carried to bed, where she lay for weeks, delirious with grief.
From Literature
I must be delirious, Major Puff thought to himself.
From Literature
Gordon left the field to the sound of his name being chanted by those delirious Newcastle supporters in the away end.
From BBC
But time travel is an imperfect science, and the technician overseeing the process is delirious from a virulent new strain of flu, so Kivrin is accidentally dropped into 1348, the year of the Black Death.
He had pressed it into her hand, delirious but insistent, as all four of them had lifted him onto the longma’s back.
From Literature
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