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[syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Demented \De*ment"ed\, a. [From Dement.]
Insane; mad; of unsound mind. -- De*ment"ed*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
demented
adj 1: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone
mad" [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed,
mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
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.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
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)