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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How to use neurotic in a sentence?

1. Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination (1950):

   The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

2. 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.

3. Judy Garland:

   People think of me as a neurotic kid, full of fits and depressions, biting my fingernails to the bone, living under an eternal shadow of illness and collapse. Why do people insist on seeing an aura of tragedy around me always? My life isn’t tragic at all. I laugh a lot these days. At myself, too. Lord, if I couldn’t laugh at myself I don’t think I’d be alive.

4. Marlon Brando:

   Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

5. 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.