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deranged

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//dɪˈɹeɪnd͡ʒd//

Disturbed or upset, especially mentally.

adjective

  1. 1

    Disturbed or upset, especially mentally.

    Though Bane's sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn't have any of the Joker's deranged wit, and Nolan isn't interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.

    Stewing over recent legal defeats, he [Donald Trump] spent Sunday night posting a series of rambling rants assailing the “completely inept and embarrassing” Supreme Court, the “Deranged” former special counsel, […] and “a Wacky, Nasty, Crooked, and totally Out of Control Judge” who ruled against him.

  2. 2

    Insane.

    When he was finally arrested, Sutcliffe hoped that by claiming to be deranged he would be convicted of manslaughter rather than murder, and therefore sent to hospital and perhaps released after 10 years.

  3. 3

    Malfunctioning or inoperative.

Etymology

Borrowed from French dérangé.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of derangesimple past and past participle of derange

Forms

comparative
more deranged
superlative
most deranged
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).