MEANING
1. Experiencing disturbed attention and confused awareness, often with fluctuating perception.
2. Overwhelmingly excited or delighted.
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- delirious patient
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The delirious patient mistook the curtain for a visitor.
He became delirious during the fever.
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Primary category: horror. Forms: Comparative more delirious; superlative most delirious where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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