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pixillated

pixillated is the alternative spelling of pixilated.

Meaning of pixilated

Adjective

pixilated (comparative more pixilated, superlative most pixilated)

  1. Behaving in an eccentric manner, as though led by pixies.
    • Jane Faulkner: They think he's pixilated.
    • Amy Faulkner: Oh, yes. Pixilated. […]
    • Board member: Perhaps I can explain, your honor. The word "pixilated" is an early American expression derived from the word "pixies", meaning elves. They would say the pixies had got him. As we nowadays would say, a man is "barmy".1936, Robert Riskin, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Film)
  2. Whimsical.
    • Gremlinesque behaviour might not be very obvious to an America, who would accept as perfectly natural the quaintly pixilated sayings and doings that are happening in subways, in trolleys, on buses, in bars at all times of the day and night.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 107
  3. Drunk.
    • The melancholy beauty of Strachur and Inveraray was for me complicated by the agonies of first love; I was well and truly pixilated, and I soaked myself in the works of Niel Munroe and Maurice Walsh…1960, Gavin Maxwell, Ring of Bright Water, London: Longmans, →OL, page 5

Forms of pixillated

comparativemore pixillated
superlativemost pixillated

Questions about pixillated

What is pixillated the alternative spelling of?
Pixillated is the alternative spelling of pixilated.

Words near pixillated in the dictionary

  1. pixilates
  2. pixilating
  3. pixilation
  4. pixilations
  5. pixillate
  6. pixillated
  7. pixillation
  8. pixillations
  9. pixiness
  10. pixing
  11. pixiu

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pixillated (page history and authors); pixilated (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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