Demented

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Demented \De*ment"ed\, a. [From {Dement}.]
     Insane; mad; of unsound mind. -- {De*ment"ed*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  demented
       adj : affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
             [syn: {brainsick}, {crazy}, {distracted}, {disturbed},
             {mad}, {sick}, {unbalanced}, {unhinged}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "demented":
     abnormal, bereft of reason, brainsick, crackbrained, cracked,
     crazed, crazy, daft, delirious, deluded, deprived of reason,
     deranged, disoriented, distraught, flighty, frenzied, hallucinated,
     hysterical, insane, irrational, loco, lunatic, mad, maddened,
     maniac, manic, mazed, mental, mentally deficient, meshuggah,
     moon-struck, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there,
     not right, odd, of unsound mind, off, psycho, queer, reasonless,
     senseless, sick, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, tetched,
     touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound,
     wandering, witless
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  demented adj. Yet another term of disgust used to describe a
     malfunctioning program. The connotation in this case is that the program
     works as designed, but the design is bad. Said, for example, of a
     program that generates large numbers of meaningless error messages,
     implying that it is on the brink of imminent collapse. Compare {wonky},
     {brain-damaged}, {bozotic}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  demented
       
          Yet another term of disgust used to describe a program.  The
          connotation in this case is that the program works as
          designed, but the design is bad.  Said, for example, of a
          program that generates large numbers of meaningless error
          messages, implying that it is on the brink of imminent
          collapse.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1994-12-07)