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Synonyms for demented
dɪˈmɛn tɪdde·ment·ed
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Princeton's WordNet
brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhingedadjective
affected with madness or insanity
"a man who had gone mad"
Synonyms:
harebrained, insane, nauseous, wan, disgusted, gaga, sore, imbalanced, macabre, brainsick, pallid, sick of(p), sick, grisly, disquieted, half-baked, maladjusted, unbalanced, unhinged, disturbed, softheaded, gruesome, dotty, unrestrained, grim, sickish, worried, excited, nauseated, sick(p), fed up(p), mad, wild, pale, upset, delirious, screwball, crazy, ghastly, huffy, ill, queasy, distressed, frantic, tired of(p)Antonyms:
sane
Dictionary of English Synonymes
dementedadjective
Synonyms:
idiotic, foolish, infatuated, insane, crazy
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2028 | wild | |
#3304 | crazy | |
#4248 | mad | |
#4320 | ill | |
#4358 | sick | |
#6352 | excited | |
#7759 | disturbed | |
#8343 | worried | |
#9332 | pale | |
#9423 | upset | |
#9703 | wan | |
#11383 | insane | |
#12985 | sore | |
#14856 | grim | |
#19943 | distressed | |
#24491 | frantic | |
#28501 | unbalanced | |
#32741 | disgusted | |
#36370 | gruesome | |
#36399 | macabre | |
#38464 | demented | |
#40371 | delirious | |
#47042 | ghastly | |
#56945 | unrestrained | |
#58157 | grisly | |
#61305 | dotty | |
#61739 | gaga | |
#62710 | huffy | |
#63360 | unhinged | |
#71885 | screwball | |
#78143 | pallid | |
#81217 | nauseous | |
#86575 | queasy | |
#100351 | imbalanced | |
#113981 | nauseated | |
#158498 | maladjusted | |
#226799 | disquieted | |
#284371 | harebrained |
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For some of these people, it was kind of a demented social club. For some, it was about ego and bravado — who could kill the biggest? The most? for some people, it’s what their family did.
Since The Daily Beast says it values ‘an inclusive culture, committed to the public good,’ I assume this is the last time Ira Madison III will be writing for them, it goes to a larger point. Liberals get away with personal attacks that would ruin the careers of people on the right. This is demented, but watch how little attention it gets from the national press.
Guantanamo has been an enormous recruitment tool for organizations like ISIL, it's part of how they rationalize and justify their demented, sick perpetration of violence on innocent people. And we can keep the American people safe while shutting down that operation.
The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.
I deeply regret using those words and giving that impression, my view, which I was clumsily trying to express, was that it is painfully regrettable that someone was not able to intervene in this demented killer's life to stop him right up to the moment he squeezed the trigger.
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