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psycho
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun psycho has 1 sense
- psycho(n = noun.person) psychotic, psychotic person - a person afflicted with psychosis; Array has particulars: cataleptic, paranoiac, paranoid, schizophrenic
is a kind of diseased person, sick person, sufferer
OXFORD DICTIONARY
psycho, n. & adj. colloq.
--n. (pl. -os) a psychopath.
--adj. psychopathic.
--n. (pl. -os) a psychopath.
--adj. psychopathic.
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THESAURUS
psycho
abnormal, bereft of reason, brainsick, catatoniac, certifiable case, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, disoriented, distraught, flighty, hallucinated, insane, irrational, loco, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, manic-depressive, mazed, mental, mental case, mentally deficient, meshuggah, moon-struck, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not right, odd, of unsound mind, off, paranoiac, paranoid, psychopath, psychopathic case, psychopathic personality, psychotic, queer, reasonless, schiz, schizo, schizoid, schizophrenic, schizy, senseless, sick, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, tetched, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, wandering, witless
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