What does pixilated mean?
Pixilated means Behaving in an eccentric manner, as though led by pixies..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Behaving in an eccentric manner, as though led by pixies..
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".
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.
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...
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Pixilated means Behaving in an eccentric manner, as though led by pixies..
Common synonyms include abnormal, eccentric, eccentrical, excentrical.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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".
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