Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of delusion.
- Afflicted with delusions: as, the delusional insane.
Wiktionary
- adj. Suffering from or characterized by delusions
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to delusions.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. suffering from or characterized by delusions
Etymologies
- delusion + -al (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The term delusional disorder was suggested by Winokur 1072 to avoid the confusion resulting from the diverse concepts of paranoia and the ambiguity of that term, which has been used to denote insanity, suspiciousness, persecutory or grandiose delusions, schizophrenia, and a specific disease entity distinct from other psychoses.”
Simon & Schuster: The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
“Many of us have been raised with what I call delusional thought patterns.”
“Hoodathunk (sponsored by the FSM, Noodles for Freedom!) says: the cranial butt plug is smelling more and more like a certain delusional physician.”
Think Progress » Stupak receives death threats after voting for health reform.
“Your opinion of my complacency and being delusional is your suggestion or is it another runoff the mill copout that you have no suggestion accept to say something for the sake of saying nothing.”
“Setting aside the most extreme examples, to flatly dismiss such products as esoteric, or their advocates as delusional, is a mistake.”
“Stupid, brainwashed, and delusional is no way for you to go through life.”
Think Progress » Coburn: ‘I love gridlock’ because it means ‘we’re not passing things.’
“DTs are beginning to set in ... delusional thinking is taking over (even more so than normal for him).”
Think Progress » Boehner Claims Student Loan Reform Will ‘Eliminate Every Bank In The Country’
“Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the former WikiLeaks spokesman who left the secret-spilling website after a bitter dispute with Assange, writes about his euphoria at the website's spectacular rise as well as his disillusionment with a leader he describes as delusional and power-crazed.”
The Huffington Post: Insider Book Portrays Assange As 'Emperor'
“How delusional is this Ballmer and his team if they actually think we consumers want ads on our search engine??”
Ballmer’s Catch-22 Problem With Search Ads - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
“MARSHALL: It seems actually like he ` s suffering from something we call delusional disorder.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘delusional’.
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Mentally irregular
Words for the mentally irregular
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Bluraven's list
These are words that have a certain beauty about them and a gentleness on the tongue.
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Things from my memory
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dharma66's list
words that pique my interest either by meaning, pronunciation, or spelling, and words that otherwise tickle my fancy!!
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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junemoonchild's Favorite Words
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Panvocalics
Panvocalics are words that contain all the vowels. Listed here are "euvocalics": words that have each of the five vowels only once. (These are also a kind of supervocalic.) Words that also have a "...
subcontinental, unoriental, ultraviolet, tourmaline, sequoia, jacqueminot, milquetoast, xenosaurid, thunderation, adenovirus, accoutering, absolutive and 2777 more...
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luckylime's Words
cacophony, cascade, trigger, crunch, vellum paper, arduous, luminescent, voluminous, euphoric, bucolic, diaphanous, danger and 162 more...
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phuzzy's Words
entomophagan, corpuscle, mellifluence, haberdasher, milliner, tow, spartan, bdellotomy, trepan, trephine, congenial, courtly and 208 more...
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Kavitha's Words
avarice, mellow, mahogany, serendipity, plush, vengeance, catalyst, plausible, penury, meticulous, sarcastic, ninja and 100 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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sputnik
canoodle, span, hasten, discombobulate, sputnik, clod, encrusted, spit-shine, zeitgeist, landslide, laid, cherish and 350 more...
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is this all there is
this is it
dillema, destruction, conundrum, proxy, spurious, usurp, divulge, vapid, lucid, malicious, ubseqious, burden and 75 more...
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if you don't have anything nice to say
animosity, twit, fury, scorn, intrusive, abomination, affront, aggressive, antisocial, apalling, armada, avaricious and 85 more...
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Health Slayer Industry
Well, it's not all bad. But too much is.
analgesia, analgesic, resveratrol, tachycardia, tachycardic, polyphenols, allele, allelic, tzaraath, reuptake, serotonin, nostrum and 86 more...
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