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Deranged vs Lenient - What's the difference?

deranged | lenient |

As adjectives the difference between deranged and lenient

is that deranged is disturbed or upset, especially mentally while lenient is lax; tolerant of deviation; permissive; not strict.

As a verb deranged

is (derange).

As a noun lenient is

(medicine) a lenitive; an emollient.

deranged

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • disturbed or upset, especially mentally
  • * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
    • 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.
  • insane

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (derange)

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    lenient

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Lax; tolerant of deviation; permissive; not strict.
    • The standard is fairly lenient , so use your discretion.
  • * 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII
    • But in other points, as well as this, I was growing very lenient to my master; I was forgetting all his faults, for which I had once kept a sharp look-out. It had formerly been my endeavour to study all sides of his character; to take the bad with the good; and from the just weighing of both, to form an equitable judgment. Now I saw no bad.

    Synonyms

    * lax, permissive

    Antonyms

    * strict * severe * stringent

    Related terms

    * lenience * leniency * lenity

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medicine) A lenitive; an emollient.

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