unhinged
UK/ʌnˈhɪndʒd/
unhinged adjective: mentally ill or unstable; deranged; insane. Also the simple past and past participle of unhinge.
Adjective (1)
unhinged (comparative more unhinged, superlative most unhinged)
- Mentally ill or unstable; deranged; insane.
- 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
- 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
- Antonyms:
- hinged
Adjective (2)
unhinged (comparative more unhinged, superlative most unhinged)
- Not furnished with a hinge.
- an unhinged door
- Not having ever been mounted using a stamp hinge.
Also used as
unhinged is also the simple past and past participle of unhinge.
unhinged meaning in Bengali and Odia
unhinged in Bengali
- নির্বিকার
unhinged in Odia
- ନିର୍ବିକାର
Examples of unhinged in a sentence
- Dad came unhinged when he saw the report card with such bad grades.
- The candidate had scuttled his chances with his unhinged outburst.
- Both of those characters can get unhinged enough to do it.
Antonyms of unhinged
Forms of unhinged
| comparative | more unhinged |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unhinged |
Origin of unhinged
From unhinge + -ed.
From un- + hinged.
Words formed from unhinged
Phrases with unhinged
Words that rhyme with unhinged
Questions about unhinged
- What does unhinged mean?
- Unhinged means mentally ill or unstable; deranged; insane.
- What is unhinged in Bengali?
- Unhinged in Bengali is নির্বিকার. See Unhinged meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is unhinged?
- Unhinged is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce unhinged?
- Unhinged is pronounced /ʌnˈhɪndʒd/ (UK).
Words near unhinged in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unhinged (page history and authors); unhinged (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unhinged (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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