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- DictionaryUn·hinged/ˌənˈhinjd/
adjective
- 1. mentally unbalanced; deranged: "the violent acts of unhinged minds"
Unhinged means highly disturbed, unstable, or distraught. Learn the synonyms, examples, word history, and related articles of unhinged from Merriam-Webster, America's largest dictionary.
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Unhinged definition: having no hinge or hinges, or with the hinges removed. See examples of UNHINGED used in a sentence.
mentally ill: I sometimes think that your mother is a little unhinged. Synonyms. crazy. demented. disturbed. mad. sick. unbalanced.
Unhinge means to make unstable or disrupt, or to remove from the hinges. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related entries for unhinge.
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.
Unhinged means deranged, mad, or unbalanced. It can also mean to remove something from the hinges or to separate or disconnect something. See examples, translations, and related words for unhinged.
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.
