neurotic
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /njʊəˈɹɒtɪk/, /njəˈɹɒtɪk/
neurotic (not comparable)
- Affected with a neurosis.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience Lecture I:
- If there were such a thing as inspiration from a higher realm, it might well be that the neurotic temperament would furnish the chief condition of the requisite receptivity.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience Lecture I:
- (informal) Overly anxious.
- He is getting neurotic about time-keeping.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:
- “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, […], the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, […]!”
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter VIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855 ↗:
- “You did come down a wallop, didn't you? How art thou fallen from heaven, oh Lucifer, son of the morning, I said to myself. You're so terribly neurotic, Bertie. You must try to be less jumpy. What you need is a good nerve tonic.”
- (medicine) Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.
- French: névrotique, psychotique
- German: neurotisch
- Russian: невроти́ческий
- Spanish: neurótico
neurotic (plural neurotics)
- A person who has a neurosis
- jitterbug, nervous wreck, worrywart; see also Thesaurus:worrier
- French: névrotique, psychotique
- German: Neurotiker, Neurotikerin
- Italian: isterico, nevrotico
- Portuguese: neurótico, neurótica
- Russian: невро́тик
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