DELUSIONAL Definition & Meaning

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delusional

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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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First recorded in 1850–60; delusion ( def. ) + -al ¹ ( def. )

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"The notion… is honestly delusional," he told ABC radio.

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Left untreated, Landy said, Wilson would inevitably swing freely between delusional highs and nearly suicidal lows.

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"If these folks believe that they are going to grow the revenue by putting this thing on, I think they're delusional," he said.

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This budget fight exposes how delusional that "we can handle the sheeple" attitude always was.

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The opening lines describe a brief, possibly delusional encounter on the subway: “She smiled at me on the subway / She was with another man.”

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