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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":

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How to use neurotic in a sentence?

  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. 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.

  3. Norman O. Brown:

    All currency is neurotic currency.

  4. Theodore Isaac Rubin:

    "The most prevalent and destructive fear is not of sickness or death itself. It is the fear of being human. All of our neurotic symptoms are retaliation against ourselves for daring to be human, this is less than godlike martyrs or masters. This is what psychotherapy is all about: getting over the fear of being human.

  5. Robert Anson Heinlein:

    A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.


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