demented

English

Etymology

Past participle of dement, from Latin dēmentāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈmɛntɪd/

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Adjective

demented (comparative more demented, superlative most demented)

2. Insane; mentally ill.
   • 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:

     So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.

4. Having dementia.
6. (informal) Crazy; ridiculous.
   • c. 1990, How to Play Super C (PDF) (instruction manual), Konami, page 4:

     One of these new recruits is Jagger Froid, a demented alien from the Black Hole Galaxy, who dishes out punishment with a laser-sharp tongue.

   a demented idea

Derived terms

• academented
• dementedly
• nondemented
• pseudodemented
• semidemented
• undementeddementedness

 

Translations

insane or mentally ill

Arabic: مَخْبُول (maḵbūl), مَجْنُون (ar) (majnūn), مَسْعُور (ar) (masʕūr) Bulgarian: луд (bg) (lud), побъркан (bg) (pobǎrkan) Danish: afsindig, vanvittig Finnish: hullu (fi) French: dément (fr) German: wahnsinnig (de), verrückt (de) Greek: παράφρων (el) (paráfron), τρελός (el) (trelós) Latin: dēmens Russian: сумасше́дший (ru) (sumasšédšij) Vietnamese: loạn trí (vi)

suffering from dementia

Bulgarian: дементен (dementen) Czech: dementní (cs) Danish: dement Finnish: dementoitunut German: dement (de) Greek: ανοϊκός (el) (anoïkós) Norwegian: Bokmål: dement Nynorsk: dement Russian: слабоумный (ru) (slaboumnyj) Swedish: dement (sv)

Verb

demented

1. simple past and past participle of dement

See also

• mentally ill