Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or affected with a neurosis. No longer in scientific use.
- adj. Informal Overanxious: neurotic about punctuality.
- n. A person suffering from a neurosis. No longer in scientific use.
- n. Informal A person prone to excessive anxiety and emotional upset.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Relating to the nervous system or to neuroses: as, a neurotic disease.
- Prone to the development of neuroses.
- Capable of acting on the nerves; nervine.
- n. A disease having its seat in the nerves.
- n. A medicine for nervous affections; a nervine.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous.
- adj. Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.
- adj. Of or pertaining to neurosis{2}; characteristic of neurosis{2}; caused by neurosis{2}.
- n. A disease seated in the nerves.
- n. Any toxic agent whose action is mainly directed to the great nerve centers.
- n. A person afflicted with a neurosis{2}.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. affected with emotional disorder
- adj. characteristic of or affected by neurosis
- n. a person suffering from neurosis
Examples
“But can't they all smell it now in neurotic, anxious, long-suffering Philadelphia?”
“I slowly then realised how being neurotic is also very self-orientated.”
“No analysis can go on in this light: here the neurotic is either instantly healed or goes mad.”
“There's nothing consensual about their behaviour; presumably then, by your logic this scene has nothing to do with a prejudice rooted in neurotic fear and hatred of blacks, particularly focused on black male sexuality?”
“Which brings us to the fact that being neurotic is expensive.”
“They are twisted and perverted, unhealthy, as in neurotic, while claiming to be pious, moral and pure.”
“He wrote, “Considering what might be termed a neurotic susceptibility to give credence to ‘Flying Saucers,’ Source is considered to be of extremely dubious reliability.””
“Anthony Storr put it well: The more we know about anyone, the easier it becomes to discern neurotic traits, mood disorders and other aspects of character which, when emphatically present, we call neurotic.”
“A neurotic is a person who is sure that two plus two equals four but worries about it.”
“The word neurotic is a general term covering affection of the nervous system.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘neurotic’.
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Kangaroo Words
Words containing letters in sequence, together or apart, that form a definition or instance of the subsuming word. E.g., conTAmINaTe = the kangaroo word. TAINT = the joey. Theme from a NYT X-word ...
encourage, chariot, precipitation, neurotic, feaster, unsightly, charisma, inheritor, masculine, honorable, contaminate, regulate and 103 more...
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MissEasyBreezy's list
enthasy, euphoria, fantasy, spellbind, neurotic, ecstatic, radiance, aura, innocence, glitter, glow, aurora and 26 more...
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Kingly epithets
Take one of CharlesFerdinand's excellent Merovingians or Goths, add a "the" and one of these descriptors, and presto, a character for your long-planned spoof fantasy novel.
unlikely, chuckleheaded, aloof, lacklustre, slow, murky, neurotic, clichéd, pediculous, dour, bungling, dandy and 23 more...
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Skywriting by Word of Mouth
Candid!
neurotic, content, enlightenment, disembodied, perpetual, grin, eloquence, demented, sexual, fantasy
oroboros NeUroTic Apr 22, 2008