demented

demented
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. deranged, crazed. See insanity. Ant., sane.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. crazy, deranged, bemused, unbalanced; see insane 1 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
insane, crazy, psychotic, deranged, maniacal, unstable, *flipped out, hysterical, mad, schizophrenic, irrational, *nuts.
ANT.: sane, rational, stable. see crazy, neurotic
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness: brainsick, crazy, daft, disordered, distraught, dotty, insane, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, mentally ill, moonstruck, off, touched, unbalanced, unsound, wrong. Informal: bonkers, cracked, daffy, gaga, loony. Slang: bananas, batty, buggy, cuckoo, fruity, loco, nuts, nutty, screwy, wacky. Chiefly British: crackers. Law: non compos mentis. Idioms: around the bend, crazy as a loon, mad as a hatter, not all there, nutty as a fruitcake, off (or out of) one's head, off one's rocker, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, sick in the head, stark raving mad. See SANE.

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