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Definition
to convince someone of a false belief- She is a sincere but deluded idealist.
deluded = with a false belief
- delusions of grandeur
- as long as I was truly insane now, I might as well enjoy the delusions while they were pleasant.Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
- If the poor soul is that delusional, he's even sicker than I thought.Steve Lopez -- The Soloist
- The woman is delusional.Simone Elkeles -- Perfect Chemistry
- The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.Jane Wagner
- The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.George Santayana
- You delude me with a false assent, and then I am at the mercy of your devices.Eliot, George -- Middlemarch
- Or would she go a step further, and delude us into believing that the Moonstone was stolen?Collins, Wilkie -- The Moonstone
- Are you any less deluded?Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters
- There are many deceptions and delusions in nature that serve a purpose.Anton Chekhov -- Home
- He had been forged, by that deluded old teacher, into a sort of Pasteur or Curie or patient discoverer of insulin.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- First the delusions start, then animal instincts begin to overpower the human ones.James Dashner -- The Maze Runner
- Do you understand now, deluded ones?J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- I pity this man's deluded and diseased mind.Richard Wright -- Native Son
- He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
- I thought it at the best an amiable delusion.Henry James -- The American
- Self-deluding heroics always get in the way and screw things up.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- A curious delusion—as if adding zeros could produce a sum.Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
- And with the end of the Holy Roman Empire, the fountainhead of Thurn and Taxis legitimacy is lost forever among the other splendid delusions.Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
delusions = false beliefs
delusional = out of touch with reality
delusional = out of touch with reality