demented5 definitions found demented - 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] demented - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) : demented adj 1: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged] demented - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) : 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) demented - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 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. demented - 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 |