Synonyms for deluded

Grammar : Adj

Spell : dih-lood

Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈlud

Définition of deluded

Origin : c.1400, from Latin deludere "to play false; to mock, deceive," from de- "down, to one's detriment" + ludere "to play" (see ludicrous). Related: Deluded; deluding.

adj tricked

Example sentences :

And what had so enchanted the poor prisoner, so deluded the poor maniac?
Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Where were those silly hopes with which, at one time, he had deluded himself?
Extract from : « Fair Harbor » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Could it be that, after all, Mackintosh had been mistaken, or that Red Fox had deluded them?
Extract from : « The Fiery Totem » by Argyll Saxby

Each of us knows it all, and knows he knows it all—the rest, to a man, are fools and deluded.
Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine

Do not be deluded with this idea that one party is right and the other wrong.
Extract from : « The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV » by Various

They had no mind to be deluded into working for a precarious wage.
Extract from : « Steve and the Steam Engine » by Sara Ware Bassett

The truth is that I am not deluded by the official bulletins.
Extract from : « New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 » by Various

Knight was as honourable a man as was ever loved and deluded by woman.
Extract from : « A Pair of Blue Eyes » by Thomas Hardy

His deluded followers were advised to return to their allegiance to the Crown.
Extract from : « Space Viking » by Henry Beam Piper

Perhaps I deluded myself; her skill with the pen would not serve her far.
Extract from : « Simon Dale » by Anthony Hope

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