delusional

English

Etymology

From delusion +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈluːʒənəl/

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Adjective

delusional (comparative more delusional, superlative most delusional)

1. Suffering from delusions; having false or faulty beliefs.

   Synonym: deluded

   You're delusional if you think that plan will work.

   • 2009, Robert M. Cossel, Master of the Strings, page 57:

     Morgan could not remember the last time he had heard his first name used, and he had not even been aware that Captain Jackson knew it. Regardless, he could not reply; he was sure he must be delusional. He had lost too much blood […]

2. Being or relating to a delusion.
   • 2009, David M. Semple, Roger Smyth, Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry, page 87:

     Delusional jealousy […] A delusional belief that one's partner is being unfaithful. This can occur as part of a wider psychotic illness, secondary to organic brain damage (e.g. following the 'punch drunk syndrome' in boxers), […]

Derived terms

• antidelusional
• delulu
• delusional companion syndrome
• delusional disorder
• delusionality
• delusionally
• delusional misidentification syndrome
• delusional parasitosis
• nondelusional
• predelusional
• undelusional

 

Related terms

• delusionary

Translations

suffering from or characterized by delusions

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 妄想的 (wàngxiǎng de)

• Finnish: harhainen (fi), hallusinoiva, harhakuvitelmista kärsivä, harhaluuloinen (fi)
• French: délirant (fr) m
• Galician: delirante
• German: wahnhaft (de), Wahn (de)- (compound noun, e.g. Wahnidee), einer Wahnvorstellung anhängend, verblendet (de)
• Hungarian: téveszmés, téveszméje van, tévhitben/tévedésben él, (colloquial) el van tévedve
• Indonesian: delusional
• Japanese: 妄想的 (もうそうてき, mōsōteki)
• Macedonian: за́блуден (zábluden)
• Maori: kaihewa
• Portuguese: ilusório (pt) m, enganoso (pt) m, fantasioso m, enganador (pt) m, delirante (pt) m
• Spanish: delirando (es) (gerund), delusivo (formal), delirante, delusional
• Thai: หลงผิด (th) (lǒng-pìt)
• Turkish: kuruntulu (tr), sarıntılı, vesveseli (tr), hayalî (tr)

Noun

delusional (plural delusionals)

1. A person suffering from a delusion.
   • 2005, Laura Knight-Jadczyk, The High Strangeness of Dimensions, Densities, and the Process of Alien Abduction:

     But of course, that excludes the narcissistic delusionals, the deliberate frauds, and the pathological cases of multiple personality. They are all out there in New Age Land, and it's a jungle!

Anagrams

• andouilles

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English delusional

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deˈlu.siˈɔ.nal/
• Rhymes: -nal, -al
• Hyphenation: ins‧de‧lu‧si‧o‧nal

Adjective

delusional (comparative lebihdelusional, superlative paling delusional)

1. suffered from delusion

Related terms

• berdelusi
• delusi

 

References

• “delusional” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.