Synonyms of delusional

delusional

adjective

1

as in illusory

Related Words

• illusory
• hallucinatory
• delusive
• surreal
• imaginary
• deceptive
• fanciful
• fictional
• fictitious
• unreal
• phantasmagoric
• chimerical
• make-believe
• mythical
• phantom
• hypothetical
• phantasmal
• visionary
• fantasied
• romantic
• imagined
• ideal
• invented
• notional
• phantasmic
• unbelievable
• daydreamlike
• legendary
• theoretical
• pretend
• made-up
• imaginal
• unlikely
• unconvincing
• abstract
• fabled
• fabulous
• fantastic
• envisioned
• nonexistent
• fictive
• conceived
• visualized
• concocted
• feigned
• pictured
• envisaged
• fabricated
• inexistent

Dissimilar Words

• true
• genuine
• authentic
• factual
• realistic
• convincing
• physical
• verifiable
• believable
• substantial
• solid
• real
• actual
• corporeal
• tangible
• material
• palpable
• verified
• existing
• existent

2

as in delusionary

Related Words

• delusionary
• paranoid
• schizophrenic
• neurotic
• schizoid
• paranoiac
• delirious
• obsessive-compulsive
• sociopathic
• disordered
• disturbed
• aberrant
• unstable
• uptight
• psychopathic
• worried
• high-strung
• psychotic
• demented
• anxious
• overanxious
• bothered
• maniacal
• nervous
• deranged
• distressed
• irrational
• restless
• insane
• crazed
• eccentric
• unbalanced
• uneasy
• unquiet
• mad
• psycho
• jittery
• unsettled
• jumpy
• nutty
• mental
• unhinged
• unreasonable
• daft
• oddball
• skittish
• tense
• nuts
• unsound
• batty
• strange
• bonkers
• obsessed
• non compos mentis
• loco
• brainsick
• pixilated
• odd
• crazy
• fixated
• queer
• wud
• bats

Dissimilar Words

• possessed
• rational
• relieved
• equal
• reasonable
• relaxed
• peaceful
• level
• undisturbed
• cool
• serene
• composed
• collected
• unperturbed
• smooth
• tranquil
• untroubled
• clear
• placid
• unruffled
• unshaken
• lucid
• limpid
• sedate
• sane
• unneurotic
• sound
• together
• tranquilized
• balanced
• unworried
• self-possessed
• coolheaded
• recollected
• self-composed
• compos mentis
• uncrazy

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of delusional

Mental health experts have voiced concerns about chatbots’ sycophancy, lack of clinical nuance, and ability to reinforce delusional beliefs. — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 22 Oct. 2026

What helped turn this childhood quirk into a pilot script was a little research into Capgras syndrome, one hell of a delusional disorder that affects the rare patient who firmly believes a family member or close friend is an impostor. — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026

These fictional chips are then summoned into existence by the delusional commitment of more than two million chip-industry employees to the perpetuation of a self-fulfilling prophecy. — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

No one has the courage to break through his delusional bubble and confront him with the hard facts. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2026

However, having a fake lower handicap which most tournaments only take 85% to prevent sandbaggers will hurt a delusional golfer in the end. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2026

Through the season’s first two weeks, any thoughts of the Falcons contending for a playoff spot appeared delusional and all conversations appeared moot. — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 7 Oct. 2026

Normally, an agonizing 97-loss season gets immediately washed away by the glorious, delusional churn of the Hot Stove. — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 28 Sep. 2026

The manuscript Wayne read to us that night chronicled his involvement with Gloria Swanson, the towering star of Hollywood’s Golden Age who enjoyed latter-day acclaim in 1950 playing a delusional has-been in Sunset Boulevard. — Mike Hogan, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026