deranged
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7.6
- adjective
- /dɪˈreɪndʒd/
- Offensive
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loco
- So I think what I'm saying here is, is this an evil, deranged, delusional madman?
- a deranged mind
- become deranged
- a deranged character
They got more and more deranged as the calls went on.
- They got more and more deranged as the calls went on.
- He's just a, he's just a deranged alcoholic man.
- I don't see the sign that he's deranged.
- He called his detractors scum, deranged, corrupt.
- OK, so to return you have your clubhouse friends screaming away like deranged maniacs.
- It's only a small number of truly deranged or evil people that are writing everything.
- So Chris Nolan's brilliance is to show that Harvey Dent is deranged by this horrible evil.
- The point being made here is that one does not often see a mentally deranged honeybee or a mentally deranged octopus.
- But I wrote there are not a lot that I can say that made me happy without sounding a little deranged.
- But here is a path that I think is very in terms of the symptoms, shows a lot of the symptoms of a culture that is deranged.
- Beetle Beagle, you know, a deranged Beagle will fuck anything.
Examples
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He looks like a deranged Easter bunny.
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Pimm looked at me over the top of her glasses as if I were deranged.
Fiction book (2002) -
Not for the first time, she began to worry that she was seriously deranged.
Fiction book (1997) -
This man is so deranged and manipulative.
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Frost felt rejected, became deranged, and almost dared to force the moment to its crisis.
Academic text (1996) -
But, "You are a deranged idiot and probably insane," said Agnes.
Fiction book (2002) -
I said, listen, kid, this is obviously deranged, but she has a kind of really compelling, gentle stubbornness.
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It's pretty easy to understand why her husband became temporarily deranged... ...when he saw such beauty bruised and torn by a beast.
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"You're a tired little boy." "No, I'm not tired, I'm just temporarily deranged." "What can I do for you?"
Fiction book (1990) -
This horror movie features a deranged villain who commits terrible crimes.
Synonyms
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4.1
Mentally ill and unable to think or behave in a normal way
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3.4
Having a serious problem with thinking, feeling, or behaving because of a brain condition
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7.8
A person who is not thinking or acting in a normal and safe way
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5.0
Acting in a wild and uncontrolled way
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7.8
Very frightened or upset and not thinking clearly
Someone who acts a little crazy
Acting in a very strange and not sensible way
Antonyms
How Mentally Disturbed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deranged comes from the French verb déranger, where de- means 'undo' and range is the same root you see in arrange, meaning 'order'. So to be deranged is to have your mind 'put out of order', which is why it means mentally disturbed.