psychotic
Psychiatry. relating to, characterized by, or exhibiting psychosis: a psychotic patient;psychotic symptoms;psychotic delusion.
(loosely) mentally unstable: The man who threw a stone through the convenience store window must be psychotic.
intensely upset, anxious, or angry;crazy: My dad gets so psychotic when I come home even a little bit late.
Psychiatry. a person afflicted with psychosis.
(loosely) someone who is mentally unstable: Her partner is a psychotic who often uses abusive language.
someone who exhibits extreme emotion or behavior: My brother turns into a complete psychotic whenever his team loses.
Origin of psychotic
1Other words for psychotic
1 | (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis |
2 | loony, crazy, nutty, nuts, bonkers; kooky, cuckoo, daft, batty, screwy, potty |
3 | crazed, furious, enraged, wrathful, irate, incensed, infuriated; livid, pissed off |
4 | (in nontechnical usage) psychopath, madman, maniac |
5 | nut, nutjob, kook, loony, loon |
6 | maniac, psycho |
Opposites for psychotic
Other words from psychotic
- psy·chot·i·cal·ly, adverb
- non·psy·chot·ic, adjective
- sem·i·psy·chot·ic, adjective
- un·psy·chot·ic, adjective
Words that may be confused with psychotic
- neurotic, psychotic , schizoid, schizophrenic
Words Nearby psychotic
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How to use psychotic in a sentence
Whether it is political, whether it is self‐serving … I can’t help but think it’s psychotic.
The teams would respond to “Marcus” alerts, named for a Richmond man who was fatally shot by police during a psychotic episode in 2018.
After the death of George Floyd, lawmakers in Md., Va. and D.C. set out to hold police more accountable. Here are some key measures. | Ovetta Wiggins, Peter Hermann, Tom Jackman | May 6, 2021 | Washington PostDaniel Prude was having a psychotic episode on a Rochester street last year when family members called police for help.
The Verdict on Derek Chauvin: A New Ending to a Familiar Tale | Milton Coleman | April 26, 2021 | TruthBeTold.newsRichard Widmark’s psychotic Tommy Udo tops himself in every scene for several oh-no-he-didn’t moments.
Near the end of May, Moriarty experienced another psychotic episode.
Longtime Sheriff’s Employee Contradicts Official Account of Jail Death | Kelly Davis | September 3, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
Monis seems to have been both and dedicated to his psychotic beliefs.
Du Pont, 57, was initially declared “actively psychotic” and unfit for trial by a judge, and ordered to a psychiatric hospital.
Abilify is actually a powerful anti-psychotic given to people with severe mental illness.
Mother’s Little Anti-Psychotic Is Worth $6.9 Billion A Year | Jay Michaelson | November 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHow can we taxonomize their experience, and differentiate it from hallucination, or psychotic break?
I had a friend sending me weird emails about conspiracies he saw all around him, but he too had stayed shy of a psychotic break.
The Author Of The Summer's Hit Paranoid Fantasy Opens Up | William O’Connor | August 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOf course, being a senile psychotic, he could have considered himself broke even with that amount of money.
The Old Die Rich | Horace Leonard GoldIt was obvious that Pepe was a monomaniac, an egomaniac, and as psychotic as a shorted computer.
The Misplaced Battleship | Harry Harrison (AKA Henry Maxwell Dempsey)This was immediately followed by a marked exacerbation of his psychotic manifestations.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry | Bernard GlueckThe distinguishing feature of their psychotic manifestations is that they are provoked essentially by definite situations.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry | Bernard GlueckThe prognosis of the acute prison psychotic complex is good in the majority of instances.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry | Bernard Glueck
British Dictionary definitions for psychotic
/ (saɪˈkɒtɪk) psychiatry /
of, relating to, or characterized by psychosis
a person experiencing psychosis
usage For psychotic
Derived forms of psychotic
- psychotically, adverb
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