Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of unhinge.
- adj. philately (of a stamp) not having ever been mounted using a stamp hinge.
- adj. Mentally ill.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. affected with madness or insanity
Examples
“No Way Out actress Sean Young is still considered a Hollywood outcast after a string of incidents that earned her the label "unhinged," such as being sued for harassment by her then-boyfriend, actor James Woods, over two decades ago.”
“The name unhinged Truvy and she could no longer hold back what had been bottled inside since she’d walked into the parlor.”
“Callers who are too polished (boring callers, in the vernacular) sometimes have a harder time getting through, though Danheiser admits that the line between interesting and unhinged is a fine one.”
“Many on the right complained bitterly during the Bush presidency that liberals engaged repeatedly in unhinged condemnations of President Bush.”
The Huffington Post: Jonathan Weiler: On False Equivalencies
“But in order for there to be sufficient fluidity in the rapid-fire swapping of stock bundles of individual homes, those mortgages had to be unhinged from the valid legal restraints that had governed their issuance throughout most of human history.”
The Huffington Post: Robert Scheer: Invasion of the Robot Home Snatchers
“The problem is that the parameters have been lost, and the marketing has become completely unhinged from the overarching purpose of the liturgy itself.”
“Cyberstalkers are fun, and watching this guy getting seriously unhinged is no exception. autoit 0.409042747225612 whatever dogg says:”
Matthew Yglesias » Americans Don’t Like “Socialism” But Many Democrats Do
“Most Americans wish it would go away, while many veterans increasingly describe a war that's become unhinged from a national interest.”
The Huffington Post: Robert Greenwald: The Afghanistan War's Tenth Year Must Be Its Last
“For my part, I have puzzled over inconsistencies in architectural features in the portraits — why, for example, are Albertus, Sixtus IV, Dante, and Petrarch given wood-beamed ceilings when all other ceilings in the bottom register portraits are masonry, and wood beams are consistent in the top register? — and considered alternative arrangements unhinged from the accepted sequence.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“CT Voter ..... upthread, you made a point of saying that Hillary supporters [whom I called unhinged as they are still screeching about Obama] should be separated from columnists who get paid to write commentary.”
Hillary Privately Urging Her Pledged Delegates To Vote For Obama At Convention
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘unhinged’.
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Bonkers
List for old and new terms and phrases meaning crazy, nuts, batty, prone to extreme nervousness, etc.
bonkers, crazy, nuts, batty, batchy, bats in the belfry, scatty, crackers, windy, gone crackers, cracked, dingo and 92 more...
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funny & derogatory
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
funny derogatory names, quotes, phrases.
( open list, randomness, ad hom, ad hominem )
also see:
buttfucking quitter, dirty sanchez, donkey punch, falcon punch, assbadger, unicorn turd, assclown, fudgenut, quackery, friggin homo, buttmuncher, jackwagon and 274 more... -
Mentally irregular
Words for the mentally irregular
bonkers, unhinged, batshit crazy, cognitive dissonance, apophenia, undone, loony, unsound, deranged, a bit off the beam, daft, stark ravin' mad and 65 more...
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Kingly epithets
Take one of CharlesFerdinand's excellent Merovingians or Goths, add a "the" and one of these descriptors, and presto, a character for your long-planned spoof fantasy novel.
unlikely, chuckleheaded, aloof, lacklustre, slow, murky, neurotic, clichéd, pediculous, dour, bungling, dandy and 23 more...
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Bonkers
crackers, barmy, half-baked, mental, unhinged, barking, cuckoo, cracked, nuts, mad, insane, touched and 24 more...
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erinnbatykefer's Words
ewer, lace, grenadine, wick, haruspex, augur, distal, proximal, supine, labyrinthine, rivers, monongahela and 176 more...
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ChortleGiggleSnort
Significant Words- Guiding you on your path to Snazzibility
flimsy, feeble, ranting, ramble, narky, snazzy, yoghurt, bulbous, pustule, globulous, geranium, megalomaniac and 521 more...
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ShuckFinn's Words
abecedarian, conflate, mondegreen, whit, truculent, downright, pugnacious, effluvium, canker, inveigle, obfuscate, melancholy and 227 more...
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Is it morning yet?
coterie, lexeme, counterbalance, forthright, pigtail, ponytail, french-braid, barrette, listless, counsel, sitting duck, dead duck and 268 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Miss Sunshine
she's such a joy.
bereaved, bitter, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, downcast and 405 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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cloudjuice's Words
schadenfreude, sordid, promulgate, erratic, erroneous, amalgamate, sesquipedalian, incongruous, psychosis, etymology, simulacrum, serendipity and 988 more...
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vocabs
to learn
fond, fuss, unhinged, syndication, mayhem, invoke, nostalgia, bizarre, blatantly, condemn, comrade, captivity and 89 more...
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Philately
Definitions mainly taken from this glossary.
aerogramme, aerophilately, black jack, cachet, cancellation, cinderella, albino, album weed, ambulante, aniline ink, authentication mark, back-of-book and 104 more...
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KaeZoo's Words
flingers, unhinged, driven, flanked, arboreal, venerable, endearing, iconoclastic, fletcher, competent, fireproof, cavernous and 215 more...
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reesetee In stamp collecting, a stamp without hinge marks. Aug 25, 2008