hinged

Affixed by a hinge, as a door.

Adjective

  1. Affixed by a hinge, as a door.
    • There are hinged side buffers, and the centre coupler also is hinged to enable the vehicles to work with ordinary stock. - 1946 November and December, “New L.M.S.R. Royal Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 371:
  2. Extremely high on drugs.
  3. Of a stamp, affixed with a stamp hinge.
  4. Sane; not unhinged.
    • […] we were able to used the creamer again in a slightly more hinged scenario, in our drip coffee from the coffee station. - 2025 July 22, Safiya Nygaard, [ I Tried The Best Convenience Stores in America...

Origin

The "not unhinged" sense was created as a back-formation from unhinged.

Derived

hinged-back tortoise hingedly hinged tortoise nonhinged unhinged

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of hinge