demented : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: demented	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for demented
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
demented adj affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" Synonym(s): brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Demented \Dement"ed\, a. [From {Dement}.] Insane; mad; of unsound mind. -- {Dement"ed*ness}, n.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
demented adj. Yet another term of disgust used to describe a malfunctioning program. The connotation in this case is that the program works as designed, but the design is bad. Said, for example, of a program that generates large numbers of meaningless error messages, implying that it is on the brink of imminent collapse. Compare {wonky}, {brain-damaged}, {bozotic}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
demented Yet another term of disgust used to describe a program. The connotation in this case is that the program works as designed, but the design is bad. Said, for example, of a program that generates large numbers of meaningless error messages, implying that it is on the brink of imminent collapse. [{Jargon File}] (1994-12-07)