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delusional
[ dih-loo-zhuh-nl ]
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.
Word History and Origins
Origin of delusional1
Example Sentences
Yet, even as he stares down the barrel of a gun, he harbors the delusional hope that he can puppeteer this relationship back to life.
"I must be delusional or people just don't know what they're dealing with," he says.
But as delusional as Trump is, no one can be evil all of the time.
In this era of supremely spoiled, entitled and delusional athletes, they have been humble, hard-working, levelheaded exemplars of everything that make sports great.
I’m not even sure I fully understand how this was supposed to work, because this sort of delusional thinking usually only emerges after you watch “The Producers” on mushrooms.
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