UNHINGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unhinged mean? 

• UNHINGED (adjective)
  The adjective UNHINGED has 1 sense:

1. affected with madness or insanity

  Familiarity information: UNHINGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNHINGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Affected with madness or insanity

Synonyms:

brainsick; crazy; demented; disturbed; mad; sick; unbalanced; unhinged

Context example:

a man who had gone mad

Similar:

insane (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement)

 Context examples 

I wonder if his mind can have become in any way unhinged.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If ever I have thought that you had done this deed—and how could I doubt the evidence of my own eyes—I have always believed that it was at a time when your mind was unhinged, and when you knew no more of what you were about than the man who is walking in his sleep.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Up to now I never quite knew what Shakespeare meant when he made Hamlet say:—for now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)