delirious as an adjective: - 1
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delirious
adjective
1 delirious
2 delirious
Marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion:
— A crowd of delirious baseball fans.
synonyms: excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained.
Roget 503:
insane,
mad,
lunatic,
loony [Coll.];
crazy,
crazed,
aliene†,
non compos mentis;
not right,
cracked,
touched;
bereft of reason;
all possessed,
unhinged,
unsettled in one's mind;
insensate,
reasonless,
beside oneself,
demented,
daft;
phrenzied†,
frenzied,
frenetic;
possessed,
possessed with a devil;
deranged,
maddened,
moonstruck;
shatterpated†;
mad-brained,
scatter brained,
shatter brained,
crackbrained;
touched,
tetched [Coll.];
off one's head.
[behavior suggesting insanity]
maniacal;
delirious,
lightheaded,
incoherent,
rambling,
doting,
wandering;
frantic,
raving,
stark staring mad,
stark raving mad,
wild-eyed,
berserk;
delusional,
hallucinatory.
[behavior somewhat resembling insanity]
corybantic†,
dithyrambic;
rabid,
giddy,
vertiginous,
wild;
haggard,
mazed;
flighty;
distracted,
distraught;
depressed;
agitated,
hyped up;
bewildered
etc.
(uncertain)
475.
mad as a March hare,
mad as a hatter;
of unsound mind
etc.
n.;
touched in one's head,
wrong in one's head,
not right in one's head,
not in one's right mind,
not right in one's wits,
upper story;
out of one's mind,
out of one's wits,
out of one's skull [Coll.],
far gone,
out of one's senses,
out of one's wits;
not in one's right mind.
fanatical,
infatuated,
odd,
eccentric;
hypped†,
hyppish†;
spaced out [Coll.].
imbecile,
silly,
etc.
499.
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Roget 825:
excitable,
easily excited,
in an excitable state;
high-strung;
irritable
etc.
(irascible)
901;
impatient,
intolerant.
feverish,
febrile,
hysterical;
delirious,
mad,
moody,
maggoty-headed.
unquiet,
mercurial,
electric,
galvanic,
hasty,
hurried,
restless,
fidgety,
fussy;
chafing
etc.
v..
startlish†,
mettlesome,
high-mettled†,
skittish.
vehement,
demonstrative,
violent,
wild,
furious,
fierce,
fiery,
hot-headed,
madcap.
overzealous,
enthusiastic,
impassioned,
fanatical;
rabid
etc.
(eager)
865.
rampant,
clamorous,
uproarious,
turbulent,
tempestuous,
tumultuary†,
boisterous.
impulsive,
impetuous,
passionate;
uncontrolled,
uncontrollable;
ungovernable,
irrepressible,
stanchless†,
inextinguishable,
burning,
simmering,
volcanic,
ready to burst forth,
volatile.
excited,
exciting
etc.
824.
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Moby thesaurus: abandoned, ablaze, afire, all agog, amok, ardent, at fever pitch, babbling, bellowing, berserk, bewildered, boiling over, breathless, burning, carried away, confused, cordial, corybantic, crazed, crazy, delighted, demented, demoniac, deranged, disarranged, disordered, distracted, disturbed, dizzy, drunk, ecstatic, enraptured, enthused, enthusiastic, excited, exuberant, fanatical, febrile, feral, ferocious, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, feverous, fierce, fiery, flaming, flushed, frantic, frenetic, frenzied, fulminating, furious, giddy, glowing, haggard, hearty, heated, hectic, hog-wild, hot, howling, hyperpyretic, hyperthermic, hysteric, hysterical, impassioned, in a fever, in a transport, in hysterics, incoherent, infatuated, inflamed, insane, intense, intoxicated, irrational, keen, lightheaded, lively, lunatic, mad, madding, maniac, off, on fire, orgasmic, orgiastic, overanxious, overdesirous, overeager, overenthusiastic, overexcited, overwrought, overzealous, passionate, perfervid, possessed, pyretic, rabid, raging, rambling, ramping, ranting, rapturous, raving, ravished, red-hot, roaring, running mad, steaming, steamy, storming, thrilled, transported, ultrazealous, uncontrollable, unhinged, unreasonable, unrestrained, unsettled, vigorous, violent, wandering, warm, wild, wild-eyed, wild-looking, zealous ... show more.
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