unhingedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈhɪn(d)ʒd/, U.S. /ˌənˈhɪndʒd/ 1.
a. Thrown into confusion; unsettled, disordered.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [adjective] > put out of order
misordered1538
mistempered?1541
disordered?a1560
disturbed1593
disarrayed1600
disranked1606
disadjusted1611
distempereda1616
unhinged1719
disarranged1761
deranged1796
perturbed1799
ree-raw1800
perturbate1823
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 248 I might by my loose and unhing'd Circumstances be the fitter to embrace a Proposal for Trade.
1778 J. Pringle Disc. Gunnery 23 The unhinged state of this part of the mixed mathematics.
1811 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1851) I. 243 The moral constitution of our nature is unhinged.
1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida I. i. 5 Society is unhinged, and every one is afraid to offer an opinion.
1895 J. A. Noble in Contemp. Rev. Apr. 490 A person whose intellectual, moral, or emotional sanity was unhinged.
b. spec. Of persons or the mind.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > unstable or unbalanced
alienated1529
unsettleda1616
unhinged1732
fucked-up1865
unpoised1872
disturbed1904
screwed-up1943
fouled-up1953
dicked-up1967
fucked1971
screwed1984
1732 J. Whaley Coll. Poems 213 Shall the Mind lie unhing'd by each mad flight?
1757 S. Foote Author i. 14 Last Winter..I cou'd have made as good a Speech upon any Subject,..but I am all unhing'd; all.
1811 C. Lamb Theatralia in Reflector 2 304 Tokens of an unhinged mind.
1836 F. Marryat Japhet II. vi. 51 I never felt more nervous or more unhinged.
2. Deprived of hinges; taken off the hinges.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > loosening or unfastening > [adjective] > loose, unfastened, or untied > not fastened in other specific manner
unpinneda1393
unlaced1447
unnailed?1572
unrooted1604
ungirthed1628
unlatched1651
unchained1664
unlooped1716
unbolted1793
unbelted1814
unhinged1824
unclasped1825
unpulleyed1839
strapless1846
unwelded1846
unroped1849
unhasped1856
unwhipped1867
unbuckled1874
unsoldered1876
stringless1882
unspiked1902
unclipped1922
unzippered1936
unzipped1940
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 14 An unhinged window-shutter.
1824 J. Galt Rothelan II. iv. iv. 130 Bearing the corpse of a man on an unhinged door.
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