Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A psychopath.
- adj. Crazy; insane.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- Apocope of psychotic and psychopath. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As Zeh puts it, von Neumann's motivation for introducing collapse was to save what he called psycho-physical parallelism (arguably supervenience of the mental on the physical: only one mental state is experienced, so there should be only one corresponding component in the physical state).”
“He makes it his business to change people's minds for them instead of petting their minds and he does the precise thing I have in mine except that he confines himself in doing it to what he calls psycho-mechanics -- to”
“Our expertise is in providing child safe spaces and providing basically what we call psycho social support," Ms Gibbs said.”
““I think that’s a question better fit for a team of doctors, all with the word psycho in their title.””
“Each has their own preference in psycho-pharmaceuticals.”
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“Narcissism, in psycho-therapeutic parlance, is a term used to indicate a superficial personality type with a hyper-inflated sense of self to compensate for a grievously wounded core.”
The Huffington Post: Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT: Nice But Not Good: The Art of Spotting Narcissists
“Good luck America, if this pathological lair and psycho is your best hope as your first female President.”
“The creator (i.e. el perro) named me a psycho without knowing the true psycho is his own friend, who seeks psychologist help.”
“Apparently the FBI suspects the small town psycho is connected to one of their unsolved cases and sends these two to investigate.”
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“Why does Ben Wade; s main psycho-boy kill all his help?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘psycho’.
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®emovies
Movies or TV shows where the titles are also common words, generally one-word titles.
lost, alien, bug, elephant, siege, gladiator, flock, captivity, piano, roots, freaks, moonstruck and 269 more...
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
vertigo, serendipity, casablanca, psycho, jaws, fantasia, stagecoach, network, rocky, giant, platoon, unforgiven and 285 more...
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macabre
words associated with the macabre & horror.
( open list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.co...ghastly, grisly, culeus, silly, gruesome, horrid, morbid, angelic, shocking, hideous, ghoulish, frightful and 135 more...
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Bonkers
List for old and new terms and phrases meaning crazy, nuts, batty, prone to extreme nervousness, etc.
bonkers, crazy, nuts, batty, batchy, bats in the belfry, scatty, crackers, windy, gone crackers, cracked, dingo and 92 more...
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Mentally irregular
Words for the mentally irregular
bonkers, unhinged, batshit crazy, cognitive dissonance, apophenia, undone, loony, unsound, deranged, a bit off the beam, daft, stark ravin' mad and 65 more...
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psycho-
also psych- , psi- ; relating to the mind or psychology
psychometrics, psychobabble, psychiatrist, psychologist, psychotropic, psionic, psychotherapy, psychotherapist, psycho, psychotic, psychoanalysis, psychosomatic and 2 more...
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Movies I've Seen
There's a jar I've been adding movie ticket stubs to since about age twelve. I am pleased to have a more accessible way of keeping track of the movies I've seen. Even if some are pretty embarrassin...
ghostbusters, amadeus, miller's crossing, no reservations, hoot, insomnia, master and commander, the matrix, o brother, where ..., night of the comet, the dark knight, tropic thunder and 489 more...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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grabbable, retuiteando, leaving, fantastic, absolutely, kurwa, hella, ridic, underpass, hate, interlude, plush and 2369 more... -
The braggadocio recipe
A selection of English* words ending with a vowel (except "y", "ea", ie", "ee", "oo", "ea", "ou") that is REALLY pronounced.
My favorite English words, by the way.
The good twin of The ...braggadocio, recipe, encyclopedia, solo, gnu, flu, maybe, apocope, mini, arrhythmia, folio, stereo and 197 more...
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conceptwriter's Words
sloth, jackass, dickhead, technostalgic, futuristic, enigma, impact, addict, nasty, premium, extraordinaire, yearning and 262 more...
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The "dark" things
grave, dead, death, die, died, dies, murder, murdered, murderer, murders, murdering, murderous and 115 more...
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The Pogues
transmetropolitan, lecher, queer, shite, whore, bastard, spew, bloody, waxie's dargle, farthing, pint, races and 91 more...
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flyingfox's Words
plethora, elegant, paradigm, braintrust, anachronism, virtue, pristine, palimpsest, psycho, nutjob, wackjob, pendantic and 20 more...
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mad
freak, mad, crazy, nut, psycho, silly, sick, loony, weird, lunatic, paranoid, bonkers
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Gabba Gabba Word: some Ramones words
blitzkrieg, pulsating, revved, beat, brat, punk, runt, wanna, boyfriend, chainsaw, massacre, sniff and 84 more...
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coffeezombie's Words
spam, recent, books, hypographia, zombie, register, join, nonsense, criterion, arcane, axe, scrabble and 19 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for psycho.
seanmacdhai this is one badazz word. i love the way it sounds when you say it. Feb 7, 2009