delirious

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de·lir·i·ous | \ di-ˈlir-ē-əs

Definition of delirious

1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of delirium delirious mutterings

2 : affected with or marked by delirium delirious with fever delirious fans

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As the child's temperature went up, he became delirious and didn't know where he was. He was delirious with fever. a group of delirious fans celebrating the team's victory

Recent Examples on the Web The Bing show is filled with a delirious sense of discovery and possibility that radiates from her use of the Leica, a camera soon taken up by other giants of 20th century photography including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Andre Kertesz and Robert Capa. — Steven Litt, cleveland, "Cleveland Museum of Art celebrates mid-century modern photography by Ilse Bing, ‘Queen of the Leica’," 12 July 2020 In overburdened intensive-care units, delirious patients are seeing chilling hallucinations. — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, "This Is Not a Normal Mental-Health Disaster," 7 July 2020 Believe The delirious celebrations following the 1997 championship came to a halt the following Friday, June 13. — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, "Detroit Red Wings' Stanley Cup champions breakdown: Which recent team was your favorite?," 29 Apr. 2020 These two, for a brand of soap called Bris, are delirious delights. — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, "What to Stream: Twenty-Three Short Films (and TV Commercials!) of Unusual Artistry," 16 Apr. 2020 Among those early finds was a 1700-year-old tunic, the oldest piece of clothing ever discovered in Norway and one that is puzzlingly complete, perhaps tossed off by a traveler in the delirious late stages of hypothermia. — Megan Gannon, Smithsonian Magazine, "Treasure Trove of Artifacts Illustrates Life in a Lost Viking Mountain Pass," 15 Apr. 2020 Some patients’ teeth and nails fell out; other patients became delirious and even violent or suicidal. — Wendy Moore, Time, "First the Women Who Ran This U.K. Military Hospital Faced World War I. Then Came the 1918 Flu Pandemic," 28 Apr. 2020 In the lower right-hand corner a box documented the market’s delirious approval of Trump’s bizarre recent push to ease the state of emergency around the coronavirus pandemic to aid the economy. — Jared Yates Sexton, The New Republic, "The Cult of the Shining City Embraces the Plague," 25 Mar. 2020 Memory and fantasy blend together in a delirious, psychedelic pastiche with panoramic displays of obscure pop-culture ephemera, while Deitch’s favorite characters, such as Waldo the Cat, drift in and out of the narrative. — Françoise Mouly Genevieve Bormes, The New Yorker, "Kim Deitch Spins His Yarns," 25 May 2018

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