unhinged
/ʌnˈhɪndʒd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.02 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of unhinge
adj
Not having ever been mounted using a stamp hinge.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "While ruling is going relatively well for Alicent, motherhood isn’t; her sons have both grown up to be real pieces of shit. Aemond (now played by Ewan Mitchell) has grown from a bullied child into a bullying adult; and it’s obvious from one look into his single eye that the bullied kid we met six years ago has grown up to be the most unhinged kind of sadist."
- "an unhinged door"
Etymology
From unhinge + -ed.
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ʌnˈhɪndʒd/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more unhinged (comparative)
most unhinged (superlative)