Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Delirious: Describes a state of mental confusion, often due to illness or fever, characterized by incoherent speech, hallucinations, and restlessness.
   • Raving: Refers to talking wildly or incoherently, as in a feverish or mentally disturbed state.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Bệnh nhân sốt cao và đang mê sảng. (The patient has a high fever and is delirious.)
  • Sau ca phẫu thuật, ông ấy mê sảng vài giờ. (After the surgery, he was delirious for a few hours.)
  • Cô ấy nói mê sảng vì cơn đau quá lớn. (She was raving because of the immense pain.)

Advanced Usage

• "lên cơn mê sảng": to have a bout of delirium; to become delirious.
  • Người bệnh đột nhiên lên cơn mê sảng. (The patient suddenly became delirious.)

Variants and Related Words

• Sảng (verb/noun): To rave; raving. Often used in conjunction with "mê" but can imply talking nonsense independently.
  • Anh ta nói sảng vì sốt. (He's talking nonsense because of the fever.)
• Mê man (adjective): Unconscious, in a stupor. A related state often preceding or accompanying "mê sảng".
  • Anh ấy bất tỉnh và mê man. (He was unconscious and in a stupor.)

Synonyms

• Loạn trí: Deranged, mentally disturbed (emphasizes mental confusion).
• Hoang tưởng: Delusional (emphasizes false beliefs, often a component of delirium).

Related Phrases (Collocations)

• Tình trạng mê sảng: A state of delirium.
  • Tình trạng mê sảng của bệnh nhân rất đáng lo. (The patient's state of delirium is very concerning.)
• Nói mê sảng: To talk deliriously; to rave.
  • Đừng để ý, anh ấy chỉ đang nói mê sảng thôi. (Don't pay attention, he's just talking deliriously.)

Related Idioms

• (Không commonly used as a standalone idiom. The term "mê sảng" itself is descriptive of a medical/psychological state.)

adj

1. delirious
   • tình trạng mê sảng
     Delirium