Pixilated
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Pixilated is an adjective meaning Behaving in an eccentric manner, as though led by pixies.
Meaning
Behaving in an eccentric manner, as though led by pixies.
More Meanings
- Whimsical.
Example Sentences
The melancholy beauty of Strachur and Inveraray was for me complicated by the agonies of first love; I was well and truly pixilated, and I soaked myself in the works of Niel Munroe and Maurice Walsh.
Gremlinesque behaviour might not be very obvious to an America, who would accept as perfectly natural the quaintly pixilated sayings and doings that are happening in subways, in trolleys, on buses, in bars at all times of the day and night.
Jane Faulkner: They think he's pixilated. Amy Faulkner: Oh, yes. Pixilated. […] Board member: Perhaps I can explain, your honor. The word "pixilated" is an early American expression derived from the word "pixies", meaning elves. They would say the pixies had got him. As we nowadays would say, a man is "barmy".
Synonyms for pixilated
Depending on context, synonyms include abnormal, eccentric, excentrical, odd, idiosyncratic, outlandish.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mischievous, impish, prankish, puckish, stiff, blind.
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