neuroticadjective
uk/njʊəˈrɒt.ɪk/us/nʊˈrɑː.t̬ɪk/behaving strangely or in an anxious (= worried and nervous) way, often because you have a mental illness:
neurotic behaviour/tendencies
She's neurotic about her weight - she weighs herself three times a day.
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Mental & psychiatric disorders
- ad
- adjustment disorder
- age-associated memory impairment
- anhedonia
- anorexia nervosa
- dementia
- eating disorder
- learning difficulties
- male menopause
- melancholia
- paranoia
- persecution complex
- PTSD
- sad
- schizophrenia
- schizophrenic
- seasonal affective disorder
- Sen
- Stockholm syndrome
- visual variant of Alzheimer's disease
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neurotically
adverb uk/njʊəˈrɒt.ɪ.kəl.i/us/nʊˈrɑː.t̬ɪ.kəl.i/
neuroticnoun [ C ]
uk/njʊəˈrɒt.ɪk/us/nʊˈrɑː.t̬ɪk/someone who behaves strangely, often because they have a mental illness
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Mental & psychiatric disorders
- ad
- adjustment disorder
- age-associated memory impairment
- anhedonia
- anorexia nervosa
- dementia
- eating disorder
- learning difficulties
- male menopause
- melancholia
- paranoia
- persecution complex
- PTSD
- sad
- schizophrenia
- schizophrenic
- seasonal affective disorder
- Sen
- Stockholm syndrome
- visual variant of Alzheimer's disease
See more results »