demented

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
“
Alzheimer’s Disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.

View all »
Definitions (5)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (2)

  1. adjective Mentally ill; insane.
  2. adjective Suffering from dementia or a loss of cognitive function.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (1)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • Alzheimer’s Disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami. —  Gregory Petsko on the coming neurological epidemic
  • He seemed almost demented, and hardly spoke a word. —  THE ISLAND OF SHEEP
  • Sometimes when I called she would sound very ... well, I guess demented is the correct term. —  AHMM, April 2002
  • I told her she was demented, and she began to cry, and said it was vital and more than her life was worth and God knows what else. —  Coroner's Pidgin - Margery Allingham - Campion 12: 1945
  • And from there came a landmark appearance in Ricky Gervais's Extras in 2005 in which he appeared as what can only be described as a demented parody of himself.
More examples »
 

Tags

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 91 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

deranged ·  insane ·  crazed ·  delirious ·  psychotic ·  sadistic ·  frantic ·  maniacal ·  distraught ·  suicidal ·  intoxicated ·  hysterical
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
/dəˈmɛntɛd/
by American Heritage

Charts
frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about once a month.

Recently looked up

calamity · saccharine · NetCast · RODC · audit

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

Der dicke Dachdecker deckte dir dein Dach, drum dank dem dicken Dachdecker, dass der dicke Dachdecker dir dein Dach deckte. · weitläufig · und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, so leben sie noch heute · redescheu · selbstverständlich