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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Demented \De*ment"ed\, a. [From {Dement}.] Insane; mad; of unsound mind. -- {De*ment"ed*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: demented adj : affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [syn: {brainsick}, {crazy}, {distracted}, {disturbed}, {mad}, {sick}, {unbalanced}, {unhinged}] From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 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 (13 Mar 01) [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)
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