Demented meaning

Adjective: demented

Pronunciation: (di’men-tid)

Demented meaning:

• Suffering from dementia (dementia = mental disorder marked by memory failures, impaired reasoning).
• Crazy; mad;insane or brain sick

Quotations : Ralph Richardson – You’ve got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.

Lord Mountbatten – I have been driven demented in my career.

J.F.C.Fuller – National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.

Martin Luther – As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the devil.

Terry Bennett – That patient is currently in a nursing home completely demented, tied to a chair drooling on herself and doesn’t recognize anybody, she was in pretty nearly that condition at the time she filed that complaint.

Sample sentences :

1. Demented people would always require increasing support and care.
2. Severely demented patients suffer a lot.
3. I’m sober, and I’m sick. I’m sick in the head. And all that support and all that great stuff around me allows my artistic side to be even more demented.
4. As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.
5. As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning, then they fall down the curtains.
6. There is this argument that to me is rabidly fascist, which is that one’s worth is in some way or perhaps completely determined by one’s functionality, in other words, you cease to have moral worth or your moral worth is somehow lessened when you become disabled,demented, incompetent or terminally ill.
7. He comes across not as a kind of demented Christian but somebody where religious zeal is clearly there to see, almost like he’s using his religion as an excuse for what he is doing.
8. He really likes actors. He’s not faking it, he wants to hear their opinions. As an actor, it was what I always craved. You really want as an actor to be treated as one of the grown-ups. Half the time, you are treated as a demented child who has wandered onto the set.
9. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.
10. Certainly it’s not just a visual experience – it’s an emotional one. In an informal way I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive to words and disoriented and out of it. I think that recognition of visual art can be very deep.