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Antonyms for schizophrenic
Grammar : Adj, noun |
Spell : skit-suh-fren-ik |
Phonetic Transcription : ˌskɪt səˈfrɛn ɪk |
Definition of schizophrenic
Origin :- 1912; see schizophrenia + -ic. Also from 1912 as a noun, "schizophrenic person." Transferred adjectival sense of "contradictory, inconsistent" is by 1955.
- As in insane : adj mentally ill; foolish
- As in psychotic : adj mentally deranged
- As in mentally ill : adj unwell in the mind
- As in loco : adj insane
- As in moonstruck : adj insane
- As in lunatic : noun person who is crazy, mad
- As in mad person : noun person who is considered mentally ill
- At first glance, Martin's reactions appear to be those one would expect of schizophrenic withdrawal.
- Extract from : « Anything You Can Do ... » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- So far is this true that Bleuler looks on "schizophrenic" cases with this symptom of "Benommenheit" as organic in etiology.
- Extract from : « Benign Stupors » by August Hoch
- Like the schizophrenic, Martin was living in a little world that was cut off from the actual physical world around his body.
- Extract from : « Anything You Can Do » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- He begins jabbering like a schizophrenic parrot reading a Sanskrit dictionary backward!
- Extract from : « Lighter Than You Think » by Nelson Bond
- I am (to state it in politically incorrectly language) a schizophrenic.
- Extract from : « Dreaming of Dreaming » by Peter E. Williams
Synonyms for schizophrenic
- around the bend
- batty
- bedlamite
- bizarre
- brainsick
- certifiable
- cracked
- crackpot
- crank
- crazed
- crazy
- crazy as a loon
- crazy person
- cuckoo
- daft
- demented
- demoniac
- derailed
- deranged
- disordered
- distracted
- distraught
- dotty
- fatuous
- flake
- flipped-out
- frenzied
- fruitcake
- idiot
- idiotic
- imbecile
- impractical
- insane
- irrational
- irresponsible
- kook
- lamebrain
- loco
- loon
- loony
- lunatic
- mad
- mad as a hatter
- maniac
- maniacal
- manic-depressive
- mental
- mental case
- mentally ill
- moonstruck
- neurotic
- non compos mentis
- not all there
- not of sound mind
- nut
- nuts
- nutty
- nutty as a fruitcake
- of unsound mind
- off
- off one's rocker
- out of one's mind
- over the edge
- paranoid
- patient
- preposterous
- psycho
- psychopath
- psychopathic
- psychotic
- rabid
- raging
- raver
- raving
- scatterbrain
- schizophrenic
- screwy
- senseless
- sick
- sick in the head
- sociopath
- sociopathic
- stark raving mad
- touched
- unbalanced
- unhinged
- unsettled
- unsound
- wild
- wrong
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