DELUSIONAL Definition & Meaning

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delusional

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adjective

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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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of delusional¹

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

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To call public media radical because it makes room for ideas you might find objectionable is uninformed, delusional or mere performative partisan anti-wokeism.

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Wall's legal team said a psychiatric report shows she has a chronic delusional mental health illness.

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Am I as delusional as Chelsea to believe Rick will come to his senses before he gets in too deep?

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Self isn’t delusional about what the impact on Amazon’s bottom line might be.

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The condition caused a personality change, and John became delusional and paranoid.

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