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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Relating to, characteristic of, or affected with paranoia.
  2. adj. Exhibiting or characterized by extreme and irrational fear or distrust of others: a paranoid suspicion that the phone might be bugged.
  3. n. One affected with paranoia.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Resembling paranœa.
  2. n. The trade-name for a plastic material which resembles celluloid, used for dominoes, poker chips, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of, related to, or suffering from paranoia
  2. adj. Exhibiting extreme and irrational fear or distrust of others
  3. n. Someone suffering from paranoia

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Med.) Affected with paranoia.
  2. adj. colloq. Suffering from delusions of being persecuted by the conspiratorial actions of others; having an unwarranted suspicion of the motives of others; -- used loosely in a negative sense, not as a medical term.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person afflicted with paranoia
  2. adj. suffering from paranoia

Etymologies

  1. From paranoia +‎ -oid. (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “And I never asked you if you thought I was paranoid, I am * rightfully paranoid* and I'm ok with that.”

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  • “Wolf, this question of whether it was Saddam and the doubles -- I don't mean to use the term paranoid in the classic psychiatric sense.”

    CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2003

  • “Rubyfoo: I haven't seen any psychiatric diagnoses, but the term paranoid”

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  • “I haven't seen any psychiatri­c diagnoses, but the term paranoid schizophre”

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  • “This was before I went on the web and knew almost nothing about paranoid personality disorder and just assumed the term paranoid schizophrenic was an hysterical insult that self-righteous idiots flung at a person they didn't like.”

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  • “As Hofstadter wrote, "We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.”

    9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style - Boing Boing

  • “We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.”

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  • “MARSHALL: Well, mothers who kill their children often have what we call paranoid attachment systems so the way they attach to the child is being angry towards the child, feeling that the child has taken something from them, taking the love, they ` re jealous toward other people ` s attention towards the child, but they also love the child and are attached.”

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  • “MORRISON: "You" is what we call a paranoid pseudo community.”

    CNN Transcript Apr 19, 2007

  • “A shrink had once told him to use the word cautious because of the negative connotations associated with the word paranoid, but Rapp had only laughed.”

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  1. paranoiac

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  1. insane

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  1. psychotic
  1. psychotic person
  1. psycho-

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  1. psychotic
  2. scary
  3. neurotic
  4. insane
  1. sadistic
  2. suicidal
  3. superstitious
  4. irrational
  1. hysterical
  2. bizarre
  3. depress
  4. homicidal
  1. suspicious
  2. secretive
  3. Embarrass
  4. wary
  1. schizophrenic
  2. antisocial
  3. delusional
  4. obsessive

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  1. paranoiac
  1. paranoid

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  • treeseed Paranoid personality disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis that denotes a personality disorder with paranoid features. It is characterized by an exaggeration of the cognitive modules for sensitivity to rejection, resentfulness, distrust, as well as the inclination to distort experienced events. Neutral and friendly actions of others are often misinterpreted as being hostile or contemptuous.

    People with this disorder tend to have excessive trust in their own knowledge and abilities and usually avoid close relationships with others. They search for hidden meanings in everything and read hostile intentions into the actions of others. They are quick to “challenge the loyalties of friends and loved ones and often appear cold and distant to others�?. They usually shift blame to others and tend to carry long grudges.

    Based on little or no evidence, they suspect that others are out to harm them and usually find hostile or malicious motives behind other people's actions.
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    Marrying a man like this can lead to divorce.
    Feb 3, 2008

  • gangerh Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. Jan 30, 2008

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