DELIRIOUS Synonyms: 99 Similar and Opposite Words

delirious

adjective

di-ˈlir-ē-əs

Definition of delirious

as in agitated

feeling overwhelming fear or worry we were delirious with anxiety when the boy failed to return home

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as in frantic

marked by great and often stressful excitement or activity rushing about in a delirious state during the holidays

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Recent Examples of delirious That is especially the case for a co-host that is backed by delirious home crowds and home cooking. — Carl Anka, New York Times, 20 June 2026 Fireworks lit up the night sky, people honked horns on jampacked streets and firefighters — from their trucks — slapped high-fives with delirious fans. — Tim Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026 That much was clear to the thousands and thousands of fans who packed the streets outside of Madison Square Garden and throughout the five boroughs on Saturday night, celebrating in glorious, delirious bliss after the Knicks won Game 5 of the NBA Finals, 94-90, in San Antonio. — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 14 June 2026 The Knicks then opened overtime with a 9-0 run as a delirious crowd in Madison Square Garden danced and screamed in the aisles. — CBS News, 19 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for delirious

Recent Examples of Synonyms for delirious

Adjective

Clancy became agitated, but never fully woke up once given the Narcan, which is typically used to treat heroin or fentanyl overdoes, Constanzo noted.

— Andi Babineau, CNN Money, 30 July 2026
Costanzo said Clancy became agitated, reaching out her arms, but never woke up.

— Kristina Rex, CBS News, 30 July 2026

Definition of agitated

Adjective

Dallas Caton’s bass-heavy production lays the foundation for the frantic and propulsive record.

— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2026
Over the course of one frantic, late-July weekend, 98 teens representing all 50 states put their busy lives on hold to try to do something remarkable.

— Cory Turner, NPR, 30 July 2026

Definition of frantic

Adjective

Leaving the Door Open For More S Pen fans were distraught when Samsung removed support for its beloved stylus from the Z Fold 7 in 2025.

— Eric Zeman, PC Magazine, 22 July 2026
Laertes becomes deeply distraught over his son’s two-decade absence, a grief that had already claimed his wife, Odysseus’ mother, Anticlea.

— Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 20 July 2026

Definition of distraught

Adjective

That episode inspires a Gospel story where Jesus is asleep on a cushion in the stern of the boat during a furious storm.

— John Blake, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
The nine innings the Giants played that followed the furious flurry of medical updates didn’t do much to lift the vibes.

— Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 29 July 2026

Definition of furious

Adjective

Perreault-Magny said frightened and flustered migrants sometimes try to climb into his unmarked patrol pickup, mistaking it for a smuggler coming to collect them.

— Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 29 July 2026
Meanwhile, the people standing beside the robot look frightened.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of frightened

Adjective

His plan, scheduled for a vote at the Beach commission on Wednesday after two years of often-intense debate and revision, comes in the prosaic form of a technical zoning change.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026
Criticism from the political left was, predictably, swift and intense.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026