demented
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Synonyms & Antonyms for demented
Synonyms
balmy, barmy [chiefly British], bats, batty, bedlam, bonkers, brainsick, bughouse [slang], certifiable, crackbrained, cracked, crackers, crackpot, cranky [dialect], crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, deranged, fruity [slang], gaga, haywire, insane, kooky (also kookie), loco [slang], loony (also looney), loony tunes (or looney tunes), lunatic, mad, maniacal (also maniac), mental, meshuga (or meshugge), moonstruck, non compos mentis, nuts, nutty, psycho, psychotic, scatty [chiefly British], screwy, unbalanced, unhinged, unsound, wacko (also whacko), wacky (also whacky), wud [chiefly Scottish]
Antonyms
balanced, compos mentis, sane, sound, uncrazy
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The movie is every bit as demented and bizarre as that task. — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, "Harvard Film Archive floats some boats with 2019 overnight movie marathon," 22 Aug. 2019 The sprawling estate itself, a representation of exclusionary greed, rips at her flesh, and though bloodied and battered by this bloodsport, her sheer survival is due to her resistance against the gaping maw of the demented tradition. — Katie Walsh, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Review: âReady or Notâ sacrifices horror for irony and laughs to skewer the 1 percent," 22 Aug. 2019 Kirill Petrenko elicited a kind of crystalline menace from his orchestra; Marlis Petersen sang with disconcerting beauty and purity of tone, undermining the standard picture of the character as a demented femme fatale. — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, "The Endless, Grisly Fascination of Richard Straussâs âSalomeâ," 21 Aug. 2019 The sprawling estate itself, a representation of exclusionary greed, rips at her flesh, and though bloodied and battered by this bloodsport, her sheer survival is due to her resistance against the gaping maw of the demented tradition. — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, "Review: âReady or Notâ sacrifices horror for irony and laughs to skewer the 1 percent," 19 Aug. 2019 Though bloodied and battered by this blood sport, her sheer survival is her resistance against the gaping maws of the demented tradition. — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, "âReady or Notâ is too snarky to be scary," 19 Aug. 2019 Then Ronaldo scratches his head, and is handed a booking, before chillingly putting on a demented smile and uttering the phrase himself. — SI.com, "Cristiano Ronaldo Stars in Nightmareish Advert for Asian Shopping Site and No-One Can Explain Why," 16 Aug. 2019 Suddenly, Seymour⊠and Audrey⊠and demented dentist Orin⊠are heading back to the stage in an Off Broadway Little Shop of Horrors revival. — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, "Jonathan Groff to lead Off Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors," 22 July 2019 Apart from one mostly unscary moment involving McAvoyâs Bill trapped in a circus maze of mirrors, the new trailer doesnât do much more than display the castâs fear alongside glimpses of the ever-demented Pennywise. — Aja Romano, Vox, "Watch: It Chapter Two returns with an eerie new trailer," 18 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'demented.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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