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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French détraqué.
Pronunciation
Noun
détraqué (plural détraqués)
- Someone who is dangerously deranged; a madman, a psychopath.
1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience , London: Longmans, Green & Co.:No one can pretend for a moment that in point of spiritual sagacity and capacity, Fox's mind was unsound. Every one who confronted him personally, from Oliver Cromwell down to county magistrates and jailers, seems to have acknowledged his superior power. Yet from the point of view of his nervous constitution, Fox was a psychopath or détraqué of the deepest dye.
1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 47:Those who love everything are despised by everything, as those who love a city, in its profoundest sense, become the shame of that city, the détraqués, the paupers […]
Adjective
détraqué (comparative more détraqué, superlative most détraqué)
- Mad, insane, psychopathic.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Participle
détraqué (feminine détraquée, masculine plural détraqués, feminine plural détraquées)
- past participle of détraquer
Adjective
détraqué (feminine détraquée, masculine plural détraqués, feminine plural détraquées)
- broken, broken down, busted
- unsettled
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