psychopath
/ˈsaɪkəʊpæθ/US/ˈsaɪkoʊˌpæθ/
psychopath noun: a person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, carelessness, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such a person may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses.
Noun
psychopath (plural psychopaths)
- A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, carelessness, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such a person may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses.
- A person with no moral conscience.
- Now the real difference between now and then was that Trump wasn't looking to do much of anything positive for the American people as a whole. He mainly enriched himself and his family and gave rich people another tax cut. I think as far as Republicans being psychopaths I would say yes but it's...2021 September 18, bhellbus, “Comment on 'Are the GOP psychopaths?'”, in r/chomsky, Reddit, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2022
- A person who perpetrates especially gruesome or bizarre violent acts.
- A person diagnosed with antisocial or dissocial personality disorder.
- A person diagnosed with any mental disorder.
psychopath meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
psychopath in Hindi
- person with a personality disorder characterized by a lack of empathy
- मनोरोगी manorogī
psychopath in Tamil
- மனநிலை திரிந்தவர், உளக்குழப்ப நிலை, உளக்குழப்பம், உளப்பிறழ்வு
psychopath in Urdu
- سائیکوپیتھ, سائکوپیتھ
psychopath in Bengali
- মনোরোগী, আবেগহীন নিষ্ঠুর ব্যক্তি
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- psychopath in Malayalam
- ചിത്തരോഗി, അക്രമാസക്തമാംവണ്ണം മാനസികരോഗമുള്ളയാൾ, മതിഭ്രഷ്ടൻ, മാനസികവെെകല്യമുള്ളവൻ
- psychopath in Kannada
- ಮನೋರೋಗಿ, ಮನೋವಿಕೃತ, ತೀವ್ರ ಮನೋವಿಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಒಳಗಾದವನು, ಚಂಚಲಚಿತ್ತ
- psychopath in Gujarati
- મનોરોગી
- psychopath in Nepali
- मनोरोगी
- psychopath in Tagalog
- sikopato
- psychopath in Malay
- psikopat
- psychopath in Indonesian
- psikopat
- psychopath in Persian
- روانآزار ravân-âzâr, سایکوپات sâykopât
Examples of psychopath in a sentence
- I'm a forty-something psychopath who thinks he has the right to delete anyone he sees fit.
- Nevertheless, Bill Eddy does not include psychopaths in con artistry.
- There are psychopaths, papacides, scamping vampires (“scampires”?), droopy boom mics, narcoleptic background extras who engage the camera in impromptu staring contests.
Forms of psychopath
| plural | psychopaths |
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Origin of psychopath
From German psychopathisch, from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul”) + πάθος (páthos, “suffering”).
Words formed from psychopath
Questions about psychopath
- What does psychopath mean?
- Psychopath means a person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, carelessness, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such a person may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses.
- What is psychopath in Hindi?
- Psychopath in Hindi is मनोरोगी (manorogī). See Psychopath meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is psychopath?
- Psychopath is a noun.
- How do you pronounce psychopath?
- Psychopath is pronounced /ˈsaɪkəʊpæθ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of psychopath?
- The plural of psychopath is psychopaths.
Words near psychopath in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: psychopath (page history and authors); psychopath (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); psychopath (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); psychopath (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); psychopath (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); psychopath (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); psychopath (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); psychopath (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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