delusional
Example Sentences
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To start their companies, founders have to be creative, restless, slightly delusional and outrageously ambitious.
My future self must be delusional, I thought, shaking my head.
From Literature
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Numerous studies have found that in its eagerness to agree with the user, the model validated unhealthy or dangerous behaviour, and even led people to delusional thinking.
From BBC
While the “number of users” once meant “number of paying users,” the success of Facebook, Instagram and other social-media sites persuaded delusional investors that the word “paying” could be dropped.
From MarketWatch
Pimenta argues that agents who still feel they can do everything are either 'delusional' or making promises they can't keep.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.