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psychotic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun psychotic has 1 sense
- psychotic(n = noun.person) psycho, psychotic person - a person afflicted with psychosis; Array has particulars: cataleptic, paranoiac, paranoid, schizophrenic
is a kind of diseased person, sick person, sufferer
Derived form adjective psychotic1
Adjective psychotic has 1 sense
- psychotic(s = adj.all) Array - characteristic of or suffering from psychosis; Array Derived forms noun psychosis1, noun psychotic1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
psychotic, adj. & n.
--adj. of or characterized by a psychosis.
--n. a person suffering from a psychosis.
--adj. of or characterized by a psychosis.
--n. a person suffering from a psychosis.
Derivative
psychotically adv.
THESAURUS
psychotic
abnormal, alcoholic, alternating personality, antisocial personality, bats, batty, bedlamite, bonkers, brain-damaged, brain-injured, catatoniac, catatonic, certifiable, certifiable case, cracked, crackpot, crazy, daft, demented, deranged, disordered personality, disturbed, disturbed personality, double personality, drug user, dual personality, emotionally unstable personality, escapist, exceptional, functional, hostile personality, hypochondriac, hypochondriast, idiot, imaginary invalid, immature personality, inadequate personality, inferior personality, insane, kook, loony, lunatic, mad, madman, malade imaginaire, maladjusted personality, maniac, manic-depressive, mental, mental case, mentally defective personality, mentally ill, mentally sick, moral insanity, multiple personality, neuropath, neuropsychiatric, neurotic, neurotic personality, non compos mentis, not all there, nut, nuts, nutty, of unsound mind, paranoiac, paranoid, paranoid personality, perverse personality, psychiatric, psycho, psychobiological, psychodynamic, psychogenic, psychological, psychoneurological, psychoneurotic, psychopath, psychopathic, psychopathic case, psychopathic personality, psychopathological, psychophysical, psychophysiological, psychosexual, psychosocial, psychosomatic, psychotic personality, raving, schiz, schizo, schizoid, schizoid personality, schizophrenic, schizy, screwball, seclusive personality, sexual psychopath, shut-in personality, sociopath, split personality, unbalanced, unhinged, valetudinarian, valetudinary, weak personality
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