paranoid

[ par-uh-noid ]

adjective

1. of, like, or experiencing paranoia.

noun

1. a person with paranoia.

Word History and Origins

Origin of paranoid¹

First recorded in 1900–05; paranoi(a) + -oid, with base and suffix merged, perhaps by shortening of the expected but unrecorded paranoioid

Example Sentences

“I was so paranoid that I would shred the receipts,” she said.

From The Daily Beast

As for his harsh—some might even say paranoid—opposition to European integration, “most of us would support him.”

From The Daily Beast

He became paranoid that his bride would be kidnapped, and told her to never go to the same place twice.

From The Daily Beast

And in a culture as paranoid as ours, we freak out about them all the time.

From The Daily Beast

He becomes increasingly paranoid by the societal fixtures around him—a ticking clock, a ringing phone.

From The Daily Beast

But if you want to understand security, you need to consider the most paranoid possibilities.

From Project Gutenberg

Even if it's a paranoid constitutional inferior like Jimmy's father.

From Project Gutenberg

Then the paranoid symptoms appear; he imagines himself surrounded by envious enemies, who are conspiring against him.

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Aside from this paranoid complex he had a complete left-sided functional hemiplegia with all the concomitant signs.

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This group he again subdivides into the querulent and hallucinatory paranoid forms.

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