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delusional

/dih-loo-zhuh-nl/US // dɪˈlu ʒə nl //

妄想,妄想症,妄想狂,妄想的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having false or unrealistic beliefs or opinions: Senators who think they will get agreement on a comprehensive tax bill are delusional.
    • : Psychiatry. maintaining fixed false beliefs even when confronted with facts, usually as a result of mental illness: He was so delusional and paranoid that he thought everybody was conspiring against him.

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Examples

  • These people are clearly delusional, or think they’re invincible.

  • When you hear that someone is delusional, you might think they’re schizophrenic or psychotic.

  • Today both the Senate and House will vote multiple times to reject your delusional conspiracy theories and affirm the certified Electoral College results.

  • If someone told you in March, when the World Health Organization finally called the Covid-19 outbreak a pandemic, that we’d have three strong coronavirus vaccine candidates by mid-November, you might have called that person delusional.

  • It doesn’t necessarily mean that those who score very high in the Light Triad are delusional.

  • At one point they even told her she was delusional, despite her diffuse ulcerating lesions.

  • I suppose you can if you were dumb and delusional enough to think that the Emmy voters might liven things up a little bit.

  • He became acutely delusional and committed suicide after attacking his father.

  • But according expert opinion and the case details released to the public, she was also floridly psychotic and delusional.

  • Burke insists that he is not nostalgic and he is not delusional.

  • Paranoia, as it is called, mild delusional insanity, may assert itself and then may persist for the rest of life.

  • Later we shall have something to say about the delusional systems which appear to be common to the crowd-mind and the paranoiac.

  • May, 1907:—Still delusional, hypochondriacal; paralysis very much improved.

  • On his transfer to our Hospital he readily carries  over his delusional ideas to the officials here.

  • He adhered very tenaciously to his delusional system and believed himself fully justified in all his litigious pursuits.