delirious
adjUK /dɪˈlɪə̯.ɹi.əs/
Etymology From delirium + -ous; see also Latin delirus (“silly, doting, crazy”).
1
Medicine, Sciences Being in the state of delirium.
- 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?1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 26:
- […]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.1872, Simon Mohler Landis, The Social War, Chapter III: Deacon Stew raves at Lucinda's Love for Victor:
2
Having uncontrolled excitement; ecstatic.
- delirious with joy
- Derived terms
- deliriously, deliriousness, nondelirious, semidelirious, undelirious