Lexic.us

Definition of Deliriously

1. Adverb. As if in a delirium. "He was talking deliriously"

2. Adverb. In a delirious manner. "Her answer made him deliriously happy"

Definition of Deliriously

1. Adverb. To the point of being delirious. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deliriously

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deliriously

deliquiating deliquium deliracy delirament deliraments delirancy deliration delirations deliria deliriant

deliriants delirifacient delirifacients delirious delirious shock deliriously (current term) deliriousness deliriousnesses delirium delirium cordis

delirium mussitans delirium tremens deliriums delis delish delist delistable delisted delisting delistings

Literary usage of Deliriously

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1853)
"... longing deliriously for natural and earth-grown food,—wildly praying Heaven's spirits to reclaim their own spirit-dew and essence—an element divine, ..."

2. German-English Medical Dictionary by Joseph R. Waller, Max Weiss (1890)
"deliriously. Jahresbericht, m., annual report, Jahrbuch, n., year book. Irrenanstalt, f., ) lunatic Irrenhaus, n., ..."

3. An Arabic-English Lexicon: Derived from the Best and the Most Copious by Edward William Lane (1893)
"Talk, or language, uttered irrationally or foolishly or deliriously. ... or deliriously, says what is not true: and the like is related on the authority of ..."

4. Theodore Roosevelt and His Time Shown in His Own Letters by Joseph Bucklin Bishop (1920)
"A couple of deliriously unconscious portrayals of this state of things were recently furnished me, one by B., an ex-Congressman, ..."

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