demented

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /dɪˈmɛntəd/

Adjective

demented (comparative more demented, superlative most demented)

1. Insane or mentally ill.
   • 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”:

     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.

2. Suffering from dementia.

Translations

insane or mentally ill

• Bulgarian: луд (bg) (lud), побъркан (bg) (pobǎrkan)
• Finnish: hullu (fi)
• French: dément (fr) m, démente (fr) f

• Greek: παρανοϊκός (el) (paranoïkós) m, (paranoykòs)
• Russian: сумасшедший (ru) (sumasšedšij)

suffering from dementia

• Bulgarian: дементен (bg) (dementen)
• Czech: dementní (cs)
• Finnish: dementoitunut (fi)
• German: dement (de)

• Greek: ανοϊκός (el) (anoïkós) (anoykós)
• Russian: слабоумный (ru) (slaboumnyj)
• Swedish: dement (sv)

Verb

demented

1. simple past tense and past participle of dement