dementedadj.

Brit.

/dᵻˈmɛntᵻd/, U.S.

/dəˈmɛn(t)əd/,

/diˈmɛn(t)əd/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dement v.¹, -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < dement v.¹ + -ed suffix¹. Compare earlier dement adj., and also dementate adj., dementated adj.

a. Mentally unbalanced, esp. through intense emotion; behaving irrationally; beside oneself with anger, grief, anxiety, excitement, infatuation, etc.; (in weaker sense) extremely worried, annoyed, irritated, etc.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with

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round the bend1929

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Asiatic1938

parlatic1941

troppo1941

up the creek1941

screwed-up1943

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psychological1952

out to lunch1955

starkers1956

off (one's) squiff1960

round the twist1960

yampy1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

out of one's skull1967

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batshit1971

woo-woo1971

nutso1973

out of (one's) gourd1977

wacko1977

off one's meds1986

1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies iv. xvii. 169 Ah Rhemus, what demented Soule would spare To ruine Wife, or to dis-land an Heyre?

1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas 105 Who can be so demented, as..to..runne the hazard of totall ruine.

1725 Acct. Conduct & Proc. Late John Gow 21 Having thus secur'd the demented raving Creature, they carryed him forward to the Place which they had made on purpose.

1744 Defoe's Family Instructor (ed. 12) II. i. iii. 78 I cannot think God will charge us with Sins committed in a State of Distraction, when the Person is demented, and has not the Use of Reason.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 336 Is the man demented?

1885 J. Payn Talk of Town II. 248 He threw himself out of the room like one demented.

1910 E. M. Forster Howards End xvii. 151 Can't you turn out your tenant and let it to us? We're nearly demented.

1942 B. Markham West with Night ii. vii. 83 I think sometimes you babble like a demented goat, Kosky.

1981 G. Vidal Creation i. i. 5 After listening to one of the city's many corrupt or demented demagogues, the citizens are quite capable of breaking a sacred treaty.

2011 M. McKenna Eye for Eternity vii. xxii. 588 It must be kept secret from M.C. who will drive me demented with daily phone calls.

b. Of human behaviour, utterances, or conceptions: attributable to or indicative of being mentally unbalanced or completely irrational; expressive of intense anger, grief, anxiety, excitement, infatuation, etc. Of an animal cry or of sounds arising from an inanimate source: resembling or recalling the cries of a person who is mentally unbalanced or in extreme distress.

ΚΠ

1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. x. 375 All their demented, lunatick Tricks.

1781 J. Howie Biogr. Scoticana (ed. 2) 309 This wild set had made many proselytes to their demented delusions in Kilbryde, Glasgow, and other neighbouring parishes.

1823 J. Galt Ringan Gilhaize II. xxii. 100 My wife..fell back into my arms at the sight of her demented look.

1918 A. B. Hall Little Red House in Hollow xviii. 284 His face twisted into a demented grin of inspiration.

1954 W. Golding Lord of Flies (1988) 137 One piglet, with a demented shriek, rushed into the sea trailing Roger's spear behind it.

1968 E. Abbey Desert Solitaire (1971) 17 After the reconnoitering dust-devils comes the real, the serious wind, the voice of the desert rising to a demented howl.

1995 V. Lanier Death in Bloodhound Red 226 Even when poor O'Henry was in the throes of LSD, his demented screams didn't compare to this torturous howl.

2010 W. Self Walking to Hollywood 429 I heard a commotion in the street outside and the demented shriek of emergency services sirens.

2011 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 Oct. d1 Meyer took an almost demented delight in the high-mileage sets.

c. Of an inanimate object or immaterial thing: moving or acting in an unpredictable or wild manner; (also) having a strange, grotesque, or deranged appearance or quality.

ΚΠ

1854 Bizarre 25 Feb. 326/2 The demented current with blind fury comes foaming madly, as if to evade the pursuit of some dread tormentor.

1868 C. Reade & D. Boucicault Foul Play 84/1 He was..whirling his arms over his head like a demented windmill.

1880 Pop. Sci. June 185 The awful ecclesiastic in his demented hat and sacred pinafore.

1903 H. T. Coates Kent Fort Manor 37 You go on like a demented scarecrow in a northeast gale.

1977 H. Fast Immigrants iii. 171 The tortured, blackened trees that had once been trees in this demented landscape.

1995 Wired Jan. 23 (advt.) This is Spinal Tap. The original rockumentary, a hilarious and demented satire of an aging heavy metal band on tour.

2000 Times (Nexis) 13 June A demented washing machine, repeating a succession of wash and spin cycles while somehow always skipping the stop position.

2. Medicine.

a. Affected with dementia.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > impairment of mental powers

demented1830

1830 N.Y. Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 458 Of 366 males, 40 per cent. were maniacs..and 22 demented.

1858 J. Copland Dict. Pract. Med. II. 462/1 Maniacs and monomaniacs are carried away by false sensations and perceptions, by illusions and hallucinations..: the demented person neither imagines nor supposes any thing: he has almost no ideas.

1887 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 20 Jan. 63/2 It is a curious fact that typical cases of folie circulaire do not become demented.

1908 Practitioner Jan. 12 The patient may gradually become imbecile and demented—the hebephrenic type.

1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 244/1 In demented patients poor nutrition was associated with impaired self-care and a stubborn or delusional refusal to accept adequate help.

1990 N.Y. Times 20 Jan. 24/4 Nursing home staffs need to educate themselves better about sleep disturbances in demented patients.

2005 I. Kerridge et al. Ethics & Law for Health Professions (ed. 2) xxviii. 522 Human intellectual functions exist in a spectrum, with the likes of Einstein at one end and neonates or the demented elderly, who have less capacity than many animals, at the other.

b. Of the nature of or characterized by dementia.

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1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 872/2 The intellectual weakness which follows apoplexy is not precisely of the same character as that demented state which is the sequel of insanity.

1883 R. Quain Dict. Med. at Dementia Fewer are left to reach the demented stage.

1921 West Virginia Med. Jrnl. 16 66/1 Personally we are convinced that when paretics have reached the demented phase they are hopeless.

1975 Jrnl. Gen. Educ. 27 228 If a child inherits this gene from both parents, he will be behaviorally retarded, show damage of the eyes and brain, and die in early childhood in a demented state.

2002 tr. M. E. Sacchi Apocalypse of Being iii. 55 Their thought..originated and developed in a series of psychosomatic breakdowns which in due course were authoritatively corroborated by physicians as demented episodes.

Derivatives

deˈmentedly adv.

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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adverb] > madly

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out of (by, from, of) wit or one's wit1470–85

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1844 New Mirror 3 Aug. 280/2 He..dementedly throws His arms in the air.

1891 Melbourne Punch 4 June 365/4 Those behind..hurled themselves dementedly against those in front.

1899 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 Sept. 700/1 The mind of a dementedly insane person.

1965 F. Raphael Darling xvii. 78 Diana..ran dementedly along the landing.

2011 Sunday Times (Nexis) 3 July (News Review section) 4 Your reaction would strike everyone as dementedly disproportionate.

deˈmentedness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness

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1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 826/2 The most appropriate designation in our language for this species of disease is incoherent madness... It is named by Pinel dementia or démence, dementedness.

1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career II. vii. 126 A delusion amounting to dementedness.

1914 B. White Carpenter & Rich Man iv. 59 Without it, the attitude of Jesus toward the rich shall not be understood, nor cure be found for modernity's sad dementedness.

1974 Financial Times 5 Apr. 3/5 The irrefutable dementedness of his own style as a director.

2011 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 7 Mar. (Guide section) 8 It takes a rare kind of dementedness to hack off a baby's arm.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	demented
释义	dementedadj. Brit. /dᵻˈmɛntᵻd/, U.S. /dəˈmɛn(t)əd/, /diˈmɛn(t)əd/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dement v.¹, -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < dement v.¹ + -ed suffix¹. Compare earlier dement adj., and also dementate adj., dementated adj. 1. a. Mentally unbalanced, esp. through intense emotion; behaving irrationally; beside oneself with anger, grief, anxiety, excitement, infatuation, etc.; (in weaker sense) extremely worried, annoyed, irritated, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 1632 F. Quarles Divine Fancies iv. xvii. 169 Ah Rhemus, what demented Soule would spare To ruine Wife, or to dis-land an Heyre? 1644 J. Maxwell Sacro-sancta Regum Majestas 105 Who can be so demented, as..to..runne the hazard of totall ruine. 1725 Acct. Conduct & Proc. Late John Gow 21 Having thus secur'd the demented raving Creature, they carryed him forward to the Place which they had made on purpose. 1744 Defoe's Family Instructor (ed. 12) II. i. iii. 78 I cannot think God will charge us with Sins committed in a State of Distraction, when the Person is demented, and has not the Use of Reason. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 336 Is the man demented? 1885 J. Payn Talk of Town II. 248 He threw himself out of the room like one demented. 1910 E. M. Forster Howards End xvii. 151 Can't you turn out your tenant and let it to us? We're nearly demented. 1942 B. Markham West with Night ii. vii. 83 I think sometimes you babble like a demented goat, Kosky. 1981 G. Vidal Creation i. i. 5 After listening to one of the city's many corrupt or demented demagogues, the citizens are quite capable of breaking a sacred treaty. 2011 M. McKenna Eye for Eternity vii. xxii. 588 It must be kept secret from M.C. who will drive me demented with daily phone calls. b. Of human behaviour, utterances, or conceptions: attributable to or indicative of being mentally unbalanced or completely irrational; expressive of intense anger, grief, anxiety, excitement, infatuation, etc. Of an animal cry or of sounds arising from an inanimate source: resembling or recalling the cries of a person who is mentally unbalanced or in extreme distress. ΚΠ 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. x. 375 All their demented, lunatick Tricks. 1781 J. Howie Biogr. Scoticana (ed. 2) 309 This wild set had made many proselytes to their demented delusions in Kilbryde, Glasgow, and other neighbouring parishes. 1823 J. Galt Ringan Gilhaize II. xxii. 100 My wife..fell back into my arms at the sight of her demented look. 1918 A. B. Hall Little Red House in Hollow xviii. 284 His face twisted into a demented grin of inspiration. 1954 W. Golding Lord of Flies (1988) 137 One piglet, with a demented shriek, rushed into the sea trailing Roger's spear behind it. 1968 E. Abbey Desert Solitaire (1971) 17 After the reconnoitering dust-devils comes the real, the serious wind, the voice of the desert rising to a demented howl. 1995 V. Lanier Death in Bloodhound Red 226 Even when poor O'Henry was in the throes of LSD, his demented screams didn't compare to this torturous howl. 2010 W. Self Walking to Hollywood 429 I heard a commotion in the street outside and the demented shriek of emergency services sirens. 2011 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 Oct. d1 Meyer took an almost demented delight in the high-mileage sets. c. Of an inanimate object or immaterial thing: moving or acting in an unpredictable or wild manner; (also) having a strange, grotesque, or deranged appearance or quality. ΚΠ 1854 Bizarre 25 Feb. 326/2 The demented current with blind fury comes foaming madly, as if to evade the pursuit of some dread tormentor. 1868 C. Reade & D. Boucicault Foul Play 84/1 He was..whirling his arms over his head like a demented windmill. 1880 Pop. Sci. June 185 The awful ecclesiastic in his demented hat and sacred pinafore. 1903 H. T. Coates Kent Fort Manor 37 You go on like a demented scarecrow in a northeast gale. 1977 H. Fast Immigrants iii. 171 The tortured, blackened trees that had once been trees in this demented landscape. 1995 Wired Jan. 23 (advt.) This is Spinal Tap. The original rockumentary, a hilarious and demented satire of an aging heavy metal band on tour. 2000 Times (Nexis) 13 June A demented washing machine, repeating a succession of wash and spin cycles while somehow always skipping the stop position. 2. Medicine. a. Affected with dementia. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > impairment of mental powers demented1830 1830 N.Y. Med. & Physical Jrnl. 2 458 Of 366 males, 40 per cent. were maniacs..and 22 demented. 1858 J. Copland Dict. Pract. Med. II. 462/1 Maniacs and monomaniacs are carried away by false sensations and perceptions, by illusions and hallucinations..: the demented person neither imagines nor supposes any thing: he has almost no ideas. 1887 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 20 Jan. 63/2 It is a curious fact that typical cases of folie circulaire do not become demented. 1908 Practitioner Jan. 12 The patient may gradually become imbecile and demented—the hebephrenic type. 1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 244/1 In demented patients poor nutrition was associated with impaired self-care and a stubborn or delusional refusal to accept adequate help. 1990 N.Y. Times 20 Jan. 24/4 Nursing home staffs need to educate themselves better about sleep disturbances in demented patients. 2005 I. Kerridge et al. Ethics & Law for Health Professions (ed. 2) xxviii. 522 Human intellectual functions exist in a spectrum, with the likes of Einstein at one end and neonates or the demented elderly, who have less capacity than many animals, at the other. b. Of the nature of or characterized by dementia. ΚΠ 1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 872/2 The intellectual weakness which follows apoplexy is not precisely of the same character as that demented state which is the sequel of insanity. 1883 R. Quain Dict. Med. at Dementia Fewer are left to reach the demented stage. 1921 West Virginia Med. Jrnl. 16 66/1 Personally we are convinced that when paretics have reached the demented phase they are hopeless. 1975 Jrnl. Gen. Educ. 27 228 If a child inherits this gene from both parents, he will be behaviorally retarded, show damage of the eyes and brain, and die in early childhood in a demented state. 2002 tr. M. E. Sacchi Apocalypse of Being iii. 55 Their thought..originated and developed in a series of psychosomatic breakdowns which in due course were authoritatively corroborated by physicians as demented episodes. Derivatives deˈmentedly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adverb] > madly woodlyc1000 madlyc1225 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's wit1470–85 bedlamlya1569 bedlamlike1576 distractedly1608 madling1608 monthly1611 brainsicklya1616 maddinglya1625 frenzilya1688 crazily1814 insanely1828 dementedly1844 off1866 hippomaniacally1876 pathologically1925 manically1927 dottily1937 feyly1959 kookily1968 nutso1980 1844 New Mirror 3 Aug. 280/2 He..dementedly throws His arms in the air. 1891 Melbourne Punch 4 June 365/4 Those behind..hurled themselves dementedly against those in front. 1899 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 Sept. 700/1 The mind of a dementedly insane person. 1965 F. Raphael Darling xvii. 78 Diana..ran dementedly along the landing. 2011 Sunday Times (Nexis) 3 July (News Review section) 4 Your reaction would strike everyone as dementedly disproportionate. deˈmentedness n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness woodnessc1000 woodshipc1000 madshipc1225 woodc1275 woodhead1303 ragec1330 amentiaa1398 madnessa1398 frenzy?a1400 madheada1400 maddingc1400 alienation?a1425 furiosity?a1475 derverye1480 forcenery1480 furiousnessc1500 unwitness1527 unwitting1527 demencya1529 straughtness1530 insaniea1538 brainsickness1541 lunacy1541 amenty1557 distraughtness1576 dementation?1583 straughtedness1583 insanity1590 crazedness1593 bedlam1598 dementia1598 insanation1599 non compos mentis1607 distraction1609 daffinga1614 disinsanitya1625 cerebrosity1647 vecordy1656 fanaticness1662 non-sanity1675 insaneness1730 craziness1755 hydrophobia1760 vecord1788 derangement1800 vesania1800 a screw loose1810 unsoundness1825 dementedness1833 craze1841 psychosis1847 crackiness1861 feyness1873 crack1891 meshugas1898 white ant1908 crackedness1910 pottiness1933 loopiness1939 wackiness1941 screwballism1942 kink1959 1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 826/2 The most appropriate designation in our language for this species of disease is incoherent madness... It is named by Pinel dementia or démence, dementedness. 1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career II. vii. 126 A delusion amounting to dementedness. 1914 B. White Carpenter & Rich Man iv. 59 Without it, the attitude of Jesus toward the rich shall not be understood, nor cure be found for modernity's sad dementedness. 1974 Financial Times 5 Apr. 3/5 The irrefutable dementedness of his own style as a director. 2011 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 7 Mar. (Guide section) 8 It takes a rare kind of dementedness to hack off a baby's arm. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1632
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