Synonyms for neurotic
nʊˈrɒt ɪk, nyʊ-neu·rot·ic

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1. neurotic, psychoneurotic, mental caseadjective

   a person suffering from neurosis

   Synonyms:
   mental case, psychoneurotic

   Antonyms:
   together, unneurotic

2. neuroticadjective

   characteristic of or affected by neurosis

   "neurotic disorder"; "neurotic symptoms"

   Synonyms:
   psychoneurotic

   Antonyms:
   unneurotic, together

3. neurotic, psychoneuroticadjective

   affected with emotional disorder

   Synonyms:
   psychoneurotic

   Antonyms:
   unneurotic, together

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1. List of paraphrases for "neurotic":

   paranoid

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1. Dr. Karl Menninger:

   Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

2. Samantha Skey:

   And I found out that I am kind of neurotic about some things, for example, when I text someone and I think that I might have made them upset because they didn't reply right away, I automatically assume that they got mad at me.

3. Chef Anthony Bourdain:

   I’ve tried. I just think I’m just too nervous, neurotic, driven, i would have had a different answer a few years ago. I might have deluded myself into thinking that I’d be happy in a hammock or gardening. But no, I’m quite sure I can’t.

4. Thomas Szasz:

   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.

5. David Schmid:

   The reason these neurotic Mafiosi resonate with us is that we can all relate to being in a job that we don't want to do.