delusional

adjective

Definition of delusionalnext
1
as in illusory

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as in paranoid

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for delusional
  1. illusory
  2. paranoid
  3. hallucinatory
  4. delusive
  5. neurotic
  6. surreal
  7. schizoid
  8. imaginary
Adjective
  • Fazio has grappled with that challenge while studying the illusory truth effect: how repeating something that is false will make a person more likely to believe it.
    ByKai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The auction prices and the professorships and even the art hanging on the wall by now seemed illusory.
    Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of illusory
Adjective
  • Pic follow Vietnam veteran Jonathan Teller, who suffers from guilt and paranoid delusions.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Director Satoshi Kon uses the medium to his advantage, to be sure, utilizing the reality-bending possibilities of animation to take viewers inside his heroine's paranoid, fractured headspace.
    Katie Rife, EW.com, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of paranoid
Adjective
  • Instead, his hallucinatory drama explores themes like Black assimilation, imperial white oppression, eroticism, and the uneasy relationship between religion and power.
    Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
  • There appears to be a close relationship between the brain areas responsible for veridical, imagined, and hallucinatory perception, though more data is needed.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of hallucinatory
Adjective
  • This isn’t callousness or delusive optimism but, rather, a rebellion against the suffocating expectation that the elderly have foreclosed the possibility of joy.
    Hillary Kelly, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
  • To separate art from its historical framework is futile, and to reject it in an effort to censor past violence is a delusive act of virtue signaling.
    WSJ, WSJ, 5 July 2022
Definition of delusive
Adjective
  • The story centers on Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), a neurotic college student who survives by never straying from the set of rules he’s outlined for himself.
    Travis Bean, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024
  • Outlining a plan for world domination would have been too neurotic.
    Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2024
Definition of neurotic
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, Buck continues to struggle with Tommy’s revelation, leading to the episode’s most surreal scene.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Donna has said it's been surreal getting to know Swift.
    Julie Mazziotta, People.com, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of surreal
Adjective
  • The idea of a schizoid Lady M is not entirely without appeal, but despite strong performances across the board, the work runs aground fast.
    Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2024
  • The entire movie, of course, was a goof, a schizoid cardboard Vaudeville horror burlesque shot in two days and a night by Roger Corman.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2024
Definition of schizoid
Adjective
  • Unable to enjoy the same freedom as past generations of kids (for example, playing on sidewalks or roaming freely in the countryside), these early 2000s kids were carving out freedom in virtual or imaginary spaces.
    Aytekin Tank, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Trump’s coattails may be imaginary at this point, but the insiders on the ground in Michigan know this reality: at this point in 2016—two weeks before Election Day—Hillary Clinton was up 8 points on Trump; Clinton lost by one-third of 1 point when the votes were actually counted.
    Philip Elliott / Detroit, TIME, 22 Oct. 2024
Definition of imaginary
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