sociopath

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personality; a person with an antisocial personality disorder (`psychopath' was once widely used but has now been superseded by `sociopath')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

psychopath loon nutter maniac cuckoo loony kook nut crazy crank neurotic lunatic madman fruitcake screwball
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Antonyms

friend ally reliever comforter altruist pacifier
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Hypernyms

neurotic psychoneurotic mental case

Phrases with the word

actual sociopath due sociopath egotistic sociopath entire sociopath full-blooded sociopath full-blown sociopath

Examples

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does. Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research. Arthur Conan Doyle

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath. Khaled Hosseini

You take after your dad, a high-functioning sociopath with an incurable organic personality disorder. It's one of the special-sauce variety, the kind with a known genetic cause. Your uncle Albert was something different, and worse: He was a man of faith. Charles Stross

I'm not a psychopath, Anderson, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research. Steven Moffat

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath. George Carlin

Close letter words and terms

socionic socionics socionome sociopathic sociopathic form sociopathic individual