| 单词 | psycho |
| 释义 | psycho (once / 14450 pages) n Psycho is a slang term for someone who is mentally unstable or afflicted with a psychosis. Your best friend risks looking like a psycho if she keeps stalking her ex-boyfriend months after their breakup. Psycho comes from the Greek word psykho, which means mental. Although the word has long been used as a prefix in words like psychologist, the pejorative term for a psychopath has only existed since the twentieth century. The word gained further notoriety after the 1960 release of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller, "Psycho." If you're always describing your boss as a psycho, you might want to think about looking for a new job. WORD FAMILYpsycho: psychos USAGE EXAMPLESHer glamorous mother starred in Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil, but is forever the doomed woman in the shower in Psycho. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) His Royal Highness, the man who rules the nation of Sicilia, is a psycho. New York Times(Dec 07, 2016) Only the vocals remained in a version of Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer,” although the Clash’s “Straight to Hell” was pruned less radically. Washington Post(Nov 04, 2016) n a person afflicted with psychosis Syn|Hypo|Hyper psychotic, psychotic person cataleptic a person suffering from catalepsy paranoiac, paranoida person afflicted with paranoia schizophrenicsomeone who is afflicted with schizophrenia diseased person, sick person, sufferer a person suffering from an illness |
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