2 meanings
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1 —as in:
fever induced delirium
Definition
a usually brief state of mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations- She should not be left alone in case the fever returns and makes her delirious.
delirious = mentally confused
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- We found her in the desert—dehydrated and delirious.
- She was delirious with the DTs three days into alcohol withdrawal.
- She was delirious and incoherent.
- What all did I say while I was delirious?S.E. Hinton -- The Outsiders
- He's been suffering from hallucinations and delirium. Ranting and raving.Louis Sachar -- Holes
- High overhead, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever.William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
- He was delirious when he said it.Louis Sachar -- Holes
- After the better part of a week, Dad's delirium stopped, and he asked us to come talk to him in the bedroom.Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
- It was a crazy idea, I must have been delirious.John Knowles -- A Separate Peace
delirious = mentally confused
delirious = mentally confused
delirious = mentally confused
delirious = in a state of mental confusion
delirium = mental confusion
delirious = excited (and perhaps unthinking)
delirious = mentally confused
delirium = mental confusion
delirious = mentally confused
2 —as in:
delirious with joy
Definition
a state of having been taken over by excitement or emotion- The basketball fans were delirious.
delirious = in a state of having been taken over by excitement or emotion
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- ...the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian war-criminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces —George Orwell -- 1984
- But when they saw themselves alone in the house they succumbed to the delirium of lovers who were making up for lost time.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- The way her hair was soft around her ears made my stomach landslide with a strange, delirious emotion.Victor Martinez -- Parrot in the Oven
- We should have all been delirious that she'd moved out of the basement.Sherman Alexie -- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- Foothill's band was playing their fight song over and over; their fans were delirious; their entire team had poured into the end zone to swarm the cornerback who'd scored the touchdown.Carl Deuker -- Gym Candy
- In the Two Minutes Hate he could not help sharing in the general delirium, but this sub-human chanting of 'B-B! ... B-B!' always filled him with horror.George Orwell -- 1984
- He was not any longer in the narrow white corridors in the Ministry of Love, he was in the enormous sunlit passage, a kilometre wide, down which he had seemed to walk in the delirium induced by drugs.George Orwell -- 1984
- The first soldier did not see the bread—he was not hungry—but the first Jew saw it. His ragged hand reached down and picked a piece up and shoved it deliriously to his mouth.Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
delirium = intense excitement
delirium = a state of having been taken over by excitement or emotion
delirious = extremely happy and excited (perhaps uncontrollably so)
delirious = happily excited
delirious = a state of having been taken over by excitement or emotion
delirium = intense excitement
deliriously = excitement or momentary joy