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- DictionaryUn·hinged/ˌənˈhinjd/
adjective
- 1. mentally unbalanced; deranged: "the violent acts of unhinged minds"
The meaning of UNHINGED is highly disturbed, unstable, or distraught. How to use unhinged in a sentence.
The meaning of UNHINGE is to make unstable : unsettle, disrupt. How to use unhinge in a sentence.
mentally ill: I sometimes think that your mother is a little unhinged. Synonyms. crazy. demented. disturbed. mad. sick. unbalanced.
Unhinged definition: having no hinge or hinges, or with the hinges removed. See examples of UNHINGED used in a sentence.
1. To remove (a door, for example) from the hinges. 2. To separate or disconnect: "Such military spending was completely unhinged from any justifiable operational requirement" (James Carroll). 3. a. To confuse or disrupt: an event that unhinged the marriage. b. To derange or unbalance: He was unhinged by his wife's death.
Unhinged stems from the less common verb unhinge, which meant "disorder the mind" before it was ever used to mean "take a door off its hinges." Definitions of unhinged. adjective. affected with madness or insanity. synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced. insane.
1. adjective. If you describe someone's behaviour or performance as unhinged, you are critical of it because it seems wild and uncontrollable. [journalism, disapproval] The phrase 'yeah yeah yeah' can rarely have been delivered with so much unhinged passion. 2. See also unhinge. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
to cause mental illness in someone: The threats of the modern world have unhinged us. Her mind was completely unhinged by shock and grief. See. unhinged. Fewer examples. He became unhinged by pressures at work. The news had the effect of unhinging his already unstable emotions. Something about this scene unhinges me.
Definition of unhinged adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Synonyms for UNHINGED: psychotic, lunatic, insane, mad, nuts, maniacal, crazy, maniac; Antonyms of UNHINGED: sane, sound, balanced, reasonable, rational, clear, lucid, normal.
