neurotic
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- Rhymes: -ɒtɪk
Adjective [edit]
neurotic (not comparable)
- Affected with a neurosis.
- (informal) Overly anxious.
- He is getting neurotic about time-keeping
- 1907, Robert Chambers, chapter 6, The Younger Set[1]:
- “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 speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, … !”
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VIII:
- “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.
Translations [edit]
Overanxious
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Noun [edit]
neurotic (plural neurotics)
- A person who has a neurosis
Translations [edit]
person who has a neurosis
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- Interlingua: neurotic
