psychopath

Noun

Meaning

someone with a sociopathic personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath')

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

sociopath looney loon nutter mad freak maniac loony kook insane nut crazy neurotic idiot lunatic
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Antonyms

normal friend ally reliever comforter altruist
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Hypernyms

neurotic psychoneurotic mental case

Related terms

psychosis psychopathology psycho psychotic

Phrases with the word

biggest psychopath psychopath personality amoral psychopath sexual psychopath classical psychopath

Examples

Let's be perfectly clear, shall we. The fox is not a little orange puppy dog with doe eyes and a waggly tail. It's a disease-ridden wolf with the morals of a psychopath and the teeth of a great white shark. Jeremy Clarkson

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do. Terry Pratchett

I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family. Jon Ronson

It's a funny thing, when you talk to God, you're religious, but when he talks to you, you're a psychopath. Peter Steele

If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath. Harry Hamlin

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath. Lorraine Toussaint

Close letter words and terms

psychopannychistic psychopannychy psychoparesis psychopath personality psychopathic psychopathic condition