unhinged en · ADJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
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- /ʌnˈhɪndʒd/ (Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From unhinge + -ed.
Meanings
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(figuratively, humorous, usually) Mentally ill or unstable; deranged; insane.
While ruling is going relatively well for Alicent, motherhood isn’t; her sons have both grown up to be real pieces of shit. Aemond (now played by Ewan Mitchell) has grown from a bullied child into a bullying adult; and it’s obvious from one look into his single eye that the bullied kid we met six years ago has grown up to be the most unhinged kind of sadist.
2022 October 10, Jenna Scherer, “House Of The Dragon drops its best episode yet”, in AV Club:After the screening, a large crowd filled the street outside the theater, playing spot-the-sublebrity with some of the film's prime characters, including Nirvana photographer Alice Wheeler and Love's estranged (and notoriously unhinged) father.
1998, SPIN, page 78:The revolution of 1830 and the discomforts of his private life so preyed upon his mind that his reason became unhinged, and he had to be removed to an asylum near Caen, where he died in 1834.
1876, “Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica […] , Ninth edition, Volume IV, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, page 178, column 1:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most unhinged | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more unhinged | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
come unhinged · unhingedness · unhingedly · hinged
Translations (13)
fr détraqué (mentally ill or unstable) · ru свихну́вшийся (mentally ill or unstable) · de verstört (mentally ill or unstable) · pdt errsennich (mentally ill or unstable) · de verwirrt (mentally ill or unstable) · mi wairangi (mentally ill or unstable) · es desquiciado (mentally ill or unstable) · pt desvairado (mentally ill or unstable) · fr déséquilibré (mentally ill or unstable) · es trastornado (mentally ill or unstable) · de verrückt (mentally ill or unstable) · fr dérangé (mentally ill or unstable) · es desencajado (mentally ill or unstable)