Delirious

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Delirious \De*lir"i*ous\, a. [From {Delirium}.]
     Having a delirium; wandering in mind; light-headed; insane;
     raving; wild; as, a delirious patient; delirious fancies. --
     {De*lir"i*ous*ly}, adv. -- {De*lir"i*ous*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  delirious
       adj 1: experiencing delirium [syn: {hallucinating}]
       2: marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of
          delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their
          gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure" [syn: {excited}, {frantic},
           {mad}, {unrestrained}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  130 Moby Thesaurus words for "delirious":
     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