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Definition: Deranged |
DerangedAdjective1. Driven insane. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "deranged" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: DerangedSynonyms: crazed (adj), half-crazed (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arrangement | Adjective: deranged; Verb: syncretic, syncretistic; mussy, messy; flaky; random, unordered. |
Disorder | Immethodical; unsymmetric, unsystematic; untidy, slovenly; dislocated; out of sorts; promiscuous, indiscriminate; chaotic, anarchical; unarranged; (see arrange; ); confused; deranged; topsy-turvy; (inverted); shapeless; disjointed, out of joint. |
Adjective: disorderly, orderless; out of order, out of place, out of gear; irregular, desultory; anomalous; (unconformable); acephalous, deranged; aimless; disorganized; straggling; unmethodical, | |
Insanity | Adjective: insane, mad, lunatic,loony; crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; shatterpated; mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained; touched, tetched; off one's head. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Deranged |
| English words defined with "deranged": crazy ♦ Herself ♦ looney, loony ♦ weirdo, Wowf. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "deranged": Bells ♦ Sorts. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "deranged": Derange ♦ Wowf. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You are a total nutcase, completely deranged, delusional, paranoid. (Twelve Monkeys; writing credit: David Webb Peoples) Deranged killer? (The Green Mile; writing credit: Frank Darabont) Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so if every planet in the universe has a population of zero, then the entire population of the universe must also be zero, and any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination. (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd) The normal make a living, the deranged make history. (Titus; writing credit: Karl-Heinz Kfer) He looks like a deranged Easter Bunny. (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown; Bob Clark) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Deranged (1974) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A rake's progress: The last stage: completely deranged, he launches a vitaminised [sic] health Beaujolais. Drivels meaninglessly at gourmet lunches. Universally respected.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Berserk; crazed; crazy; delirious; deranged; intemperate; mad-dog; raging; sick; wild. | | Blither; blithering; idiot; idiotic; incomprehensible; insane; institutionalized; crazy; crazed; out of your mind; out of his mind; out of my mind; mentally ill; aberrant; bewildered; confused; crazed; delirious; demented; deranged; deviant; deviate; ding. |
| Crazy; laugh; insane; insanity; bonkers; cracked; crazed; cuckoo; daft; delirious; demented; deranged; lunatic; mad; maniacal; mental; nuts; nutty; psycho; screw loose; screwball; screwy; unbalanced; unglued; unhinged; unzipped; wacky; whacko. | ||
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Anne M. Burford | Too small to be a state but too large to be an asylum for the mentally deranged. |
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| "Deranged" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.20% of the time. "Deranged" is used about 71 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 66.2% | 47 | 49,740 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 18.31% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 14.08% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Noun (common) | 1.41% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 71 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "deranged": become mentally deranged ♦ mentally deranged. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "deranged": drug-deranged. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
deranged | 31 |
deranged mentally school | 6 |
deranged record | 2 |
deranged movie | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "deranged"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i marrë (Batty, crack-brained, crazy, Daffy, delirious, demented, dippy, insane, mad, madman, phrenetic, wildcat, zany), i çrregulluar (disorganized, disturbed, downgrade), i çmendur (anile, bedlamite, berserk, crack-brained, cracked, cracky, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, dippy, frantic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, muddy, non compos, not all there, phrenetic, underwit, wild). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مضطرب (confused, disarranged, disarrayed, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, disturbed, ill at ease, jumbled, mixed up, muddled, restive, restless, rough, troubled, tumultuous, uneasy, unquiet, unsettled, upset), مختل (confused, defective, disturbed, faulty, upset), مشوش (become confused, chaotic, confused, disarranged, disarrayed, disordered, disorganized, disturbed, disturber, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, jumbled up, messy, mixed, muddled, muddy, promiscuous, unsettled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | умопомрачен (mad), разбъркан (farraginous, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, jumbled, mixing up, out of order, pell mell, perturbed, promiscuous, tumultuary, turbid, untidy), объркан (addle-brained, bushed, confused, disconcerted, distraught, embarrassed, foggy, graven, haywire, helter-skelter, intricate, involute, lost, mazy, mixed, mixed up, muddle-headed, muddy, muzzy, obscure, perplexed, punch-drunk, puzzle-headed, puzzle-pated, raddle, tangly, turbid, undigested, unglued, woolly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 顛' (confused; get backwards; reverse, crazy; deranged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | duševnì vyšinutý, pomatený (distempered, haywire, moonstruck, moony, out of one's mind, paranoid, perplexed, scatter-brained, unbalanced), choromyslný (insane). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fedme hos mentalt inferiøre (obesity in mentally deranged persons). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mielenvikainen (insane, mentally deranged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dérangé, déréglé. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gestört (broken, disrupted, disturbed, poor, troubled, unbalanced, unhinged). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ψυχογενής παχυσρκία (obesity in mentally deranged persons). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zilált (blowzy, disheveled, dishevelled, distempered, inordinate, rooky, ruffled, straggly, tousled), zűrzavaros (anarchic, anarchical, chaotic, mazy), rendetlen (cluttered, dingy, disorderly, erratic, flipperty-flopperty, higgledy-piggledy, messy, pell mell, ragged, rooky, slipshod, sloppy, slovenly, snuffy, straggly, tumultuous, unkempt, untidy), felforgatott, összezilált. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | squilibrato (insane, lunatic, mad, madman, unbalanced). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erangedday desordenado (disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger mugger, immoderate, indigestible, inordinate, lawless, pellucid, rough and tumble, tumultuous, turbulent, untidy), desarranjado (slipshod, unsettled), demente (crazed, demented, doited, insane, lubber-head, mad, madman). (various references) deranjat (disturbed, upset), bolnav (afflicted, ailing, bad, below the mark, diseased, ill, invalid, negativist, off the hinges, painful, patient, shaky, sick, suffering, unwell). (various references) ненормальный (abnormal, anomalous, bughouse, crackpot, deviant, insane, possessed, screwy, whacky), помешанный (addle-brained, barking mad, bonkers, brain-sick, cracked, crackpot, cracky, crazy, hipped, hooked, kooky, mad, maniac, moonhead, moonstruck), душевнобольной (insane, mad, mental case, mental patient). (various references) rastrojen (distracted, upset), poremećen (distempered, distracted, distraught, disturbed, out of order). (various references) trastornado (dislocated, disordered, disrupted, disturbed, moonstruck, turned, unsettled), loco (amok, amuck, barmy, bonkers, bugs, crack-brained, cracky, crazed, crazy, daft, demented, distraught, dunce, fogey, half wit, haywire, hectic, idiot, jenny ass, juggins, lemon, loco, loony, loose, mad, madman, nutty, out of one's mind, round the bend, up the pole, wall eyed, wet, whacky, wild, zany), girado (drawee, gyrate, turned). (various references) rubbad (crazy, distempered, unhinged). (various references) dengesiz (astatic, immoderate, inequable, lop-sided, Moody, non compos, non compos mentis, off one's rocker, out-of-balance, unbalanced, uncompensated, uneven, unstable), bozuk (addle, bad, broken, broken down, bum, damaged, dead, dirty, disappointed, dished, disordered, distorted, doric, embroiled, faulty, flyblown, foul, gone, hard set, haywire, heavy, hipshot, imperfect, in bad order, irregular, kaput, knackered, off, on the fritz, out of action, out of commission, out of gear, out of order, perverse, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rancid, rotten, stale, touched, unsound, upset, vicious, wrong). (various references) ненормальний (abnormal, anamorphous, anomalous, bugs, cracked, cracky, non-conventional, screwy, unsound), божевільний (addle-brained, addle-pated, batchy, bedlam, brainsick, crack-brained, crackpot, crazed, crazy, cuckoo, daft, delirious, demented, frenetic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, moonstruck, non compos, nuts, nutty, possessed, rabid, scatty), психічно неврівноважений. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Deranged" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: defanged, Delange, Demange, derang, derangedly, derannged, Derasge, derranged, Deyrnged, dorange, dringed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "deranged" (pronounced dirā"njd) |
| 5 | -r ā" n j d | estranged, ranged. |
| 4 | -ā" n j d | arranged, changed, exchanged, prearranged, rearranged, shortchanged, unchanged. |
| 3 | -n j d | avenged, cringed, expunged, hinged, infringed, lunged, plunged, scrounged, singed, sponged, unchallenged, unhinged. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dangered, gandered, gardened. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-g-n-r" | |
-1 letter: angered, degrade, derange, enraged, grandee, grenade. | |
-2 letters: agreed, dander, danged, danger, darned, deaden, deader, deaned, dragee, dredge, earned, endear, enrage, gadder, gander, garden, geared, gender, genera, graded, neared, ranged, redden, rended. | |
-3 letters: adder, agene, agree, anger, dared, denar, dread, dreed, eager, eagre, eared, edged, edger, ended, ender, genre, grade, grand, greed, green, raged. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-g-n-r" | |
+1 letter: deraigned, glandered, renegaded. | |
+2 letters: denigrated, endangered. | |
+3 letters: degenerated, depredating, engarlanded, guardedness, intergraded, redemanding, wrongheaded. | |
+4 letters: degringolade, desiderating, hydrogenated, readdressing, rededicating, undercharged. | |
+5 letters: degringolades, dehydrogenase, dehydrogenate, disintegrated, gerrymandered, gingerbreaded, grandfathered, guardednesses, nondegradable, overdemanding, predesignated, redintegrated, transgendered, undergraduate, unguardedness, wrongheadedly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 72 61 6E 67 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .-. .- -. --. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01110010 01100001 01101110 01100111 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e r a n g e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0072 0061 006E 0067 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3871846780737170 |
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