Another word for neurotic

neurotic Synonyms

neurotic

modif.

disoriented, disturbed, unstable, mentally ill, erratic, psychoneurotic, aberrant, deranged, obsessive, compulsive, upset, sick; see also insane 1, troubled 1.

neurotic Synonyms

neurotic

paranoid, psychoneurotic, sick person, psychotic, hypochondriac, neuropath, kleptomaniac.

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The machine is quite eloquent, but I would be concerned by the needy and slightly neurotic tone.
Donne was now in weak health, and in a highly neurotic condition.
It is believed that his disease was a malarial form of recurrent quinsy acting upon an extremely neurotic system.
His life with Joanna was rendered extremely unhappy by his infidelity and by her jealousy, which, working on a neurotic temperament, precipitated her insanity.
Was in every respect precocious; but from the first there was what we should now call a neurotic strain in his character.

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