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Adjective
demented (comparative more demented, superlative most demented)
- Insane; mentally ill.
- ✤ 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.1
- ✤ In the past week, he [Donald Trump] attacked the “truly sick and demented people” in the news media, […], not even counting the “deranged scumbags” in Iran.2
- Having dementia.
- (informal) Crazy; ridiculous.
- ✤ a demented idea
- ✤ 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.3
- ✤ Literally nothing happens, apart from Donaldson counting to 100,000. In this sense, it is nothing like his later videos, defined as they are by a near- demented commitment to maximum viewer-stimulation.4
Verb
demented
- simple past and past participle of dement
Etymology
Past participle of dement + -ed, from Latin dēmentāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɪˈmɛntɪd/
- Audio (US): 🔊
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Link to original Footnotes
2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in AV Club , archived from the original on 28 December 2012: ↩
2026 March 16, Peter Baker, “In Choosing ‘Epic Fury,’ Trump Names a War and Defines His Presidency”, in The New York Times , New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC: ↩
c. 1990, How to Play Super C (PDF) (instruction manual), Konami, page 4: ↩
2025 June 3, Mark O’Connell, “‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star”, in The Guardian , archived from the original on 7 June 2025: ↩
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