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- Dictionaryun·hinged/ˌənˈhinjd/
adjective
- 1. mentally unbalanced; deranged: "the violent acts of unhinged minds"
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The meaning of UNHINGED is highly disturbed, unstable, or distraught. How to use unhinged 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 make unstable : unsettle, disrupt. unhinge the balance of world peace. pressure that would unhinge a less experienced person. 2. : to remove from the hinges. unhinge a door. Synonyms. crack. craze. derange. frenzy. loco. madden. unbalance. unstring. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of unhinge in a Sentence.
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.
If someone's unhinged, they aren't completely sane. Unhinged is another way to say "crazy" or "out to lunch." Babysitting six kids between the ages of three and ten for an entire day might leave you feeling a little unhinged.
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.
/ʌnˈhɪndʒd/ (sometimes offensive) having a mental illness that makes somebody unable to think or behave normally. the delusions of an unhinged mind. Want to learn more?
If you say that someone comes or becomes unhinged, you mean that they begin to behave in an uncontrolled or unreasonable way. [ disapproval ] Robert De Niro plays an obsessed Boston Red Sox fan who becomes unhinged after he loses his job.
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.
