Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Mentally ill; insane.
- adj. Suffering from dementia or a loss of cognitive function.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having lost the normal use of the reason; insane; specifically, afflicted with or characterized by dementia.
Wiktionary
- adj. Insane or mentally ill.
- adj. Suffering from dementia.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of dement.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Insane; mad; of unsound mind.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. affected with madness or insanity
Examples
“The word 'demented' like 'nutter' or 'lunatic' is a real barrier to sufferers, such as myself, in discussing mental illness, and so overcoming the terrible awkwardness that makes us feel like social lepers.”
“Your use of the word 'demented' is not totally surprising, given how pervasive and entrenched the mythology about the poet is out there (and how easy it has been for centuries to automatically label gifted, creative women who behave differently as 'demented').”
“Too bad dr demented is too dense to understand what you are trying to say to them ..”
“I swear dr demented is going to drive me insane one of these days …”
“Mr. Gülen's followers say the real conspirators are instead members of the so-called Deep State — what they call a demented, multitentacled secret alliance of high-level figures in the military, the intelligence services, the judiciary and organized crime.”
“Her curiously juvenile prattle — "The way it began, it was a bit like a repeat of earlier," she begins one anecdote — and her worshipful obsession with all things Hailshamite quickly make it clear that Kathy, if not demented, is at least imperfectly removed from her schoolgirl self; and as she rabbits on, the oddness of her schooldays becomes increasingly apparent.”
“In what I can only describe as one of the most overly animated, gesticulating, face contorting diatribes I have ever witnessed, Professor Rabkin loudly proclaimed that the mood of the people in the room was "demented" -.”
“Ok I’m baaaack and Im happy to report that dr demented is officially getting his ass handed to him on the mississippi thread!”
Think Progress » Lieberman Gets A Chuckle Out Of Peddling Far-Right Nuke Myth
“FROM MTV. COM: My favorite Norwegian black-metal story, well-known by now to connoisseurs of the demented, is the one about the singer called — prophetically, as it turned out — Dead.”
Kurt Loder Reviews ‘Until The Light Takes Us’ » MTV Movies Blog
“It's hard to write love poetry without sounding sappy or just plain demented.”
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