psychotic

Speech parts

1. psychotic - Noun

2. psychotic - Adjective

3. psychotic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

a person afflicted with psychosis

characteristic of or suffering from psychosis

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

batty loco looney nutter mad madder maniac loony kook mental psychological psychiatric insane crazy pathological
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Antonyms

right-minded levelheaded well-balanced

Hypernyms

sufferer sick person diseased person

Hyponyms

paranoid schizophrenic cataleptic paranoiac

Phrases with the word

psychotic disorder bipolar disorder with psychotic features psychotic rape psychotic insanity brief psychotic disorder psychotic powers

Examples

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent. Sigmund Freud

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions. Thomas Szasz

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Joseph Campbell

His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with. Irvine Welsh

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity. Jean Dubuffet

If man was devolving into a psychotic pit of rotted plasma, [Karl] Rove would be the Alpha of such grime. Larisa Alexandrovna

Close letter words and terms

psychotherapy psychotherapy group psychothriller psychotic belief psychotic break psychotic depression