Antonyms for psychotic
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : sahy-kot-ik |
| Phonetic Transcription : saɪˈkɒt ɪk |
Definition of psychotic
Origin :- 1889, coined from psychosis, on the model of neurotic/neurosis, from Greek psykhe- "mind, soul" (see psyche).
- adj mentally deranged
- He merely mentioned that Andray Dunnan was psychotic and let it go at that.
- Extract from : « Space Viking » by Henry Beam Piper
- Yet they were not psychotic and hardly more than mildly neurotic.
- Extract from : « Disturbing Sun » by Robert Shirley Richardson
- And then again, a psychotic or a professional gunsel may not register at all.
- Extract from : « The Circuit Riders » by R. C. FitzPatrick
- If you are psychotic, your behavior may hurt others or yourself.
- Extract from : « When You Don't Know Where to Turn » by Steven J. Bartlett
- The eyes opened as a hand shook the psychotic Mersey by the shoulder.
- Extract from : « The Inhabited » by Richard Wilson
- You understand, there is usually a mixture of psychotic conditions, in cases like this.
- Extract from : « Dearest » by Henry Beam Piper
- More used to the strange demands of neurotic and psychotic patients, they were readier to comply.
- Extract from : « That Sweet Little Old Lady » by Gordon Randall Garrett (AKA Mark Phillips)
- In his mind the need to escape became an obsession on top of the other psychotic states normal to a Moon-colonist.
- Extract from : « Scrimshaw » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins
- What often happens is that these psychotic affects appear but incompletely, often in dissociated manifestations.
- Extract from : « Benign Stupors » by August Hoch
- Inevitably with such an ambitious scheme as the pigeon-holing of all psychotic phenomena some mistakes were made.
- Extract from : « Benign Stupors » by August Hoch
Synonyms for psychotic
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