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delusional

[ dih-loo-zhuh-nl ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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.

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

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