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psychopathic

/ˌsaɪkoʊˈpæθɪk/

psychopathic adjective: exhibiting the behaviors and personality traits of a psychopath.

Adjective

psychopathic (comparative more psychopathic, superlative most psychopathic)

  1. Exhibiting the behaviors and personality traits of a psychopath.
    • A psychopathic killer is on the loose.
    • [T]he psychopathic temperament, whatever be the intellect with which it finds itself paired, often brings with it ardor and excitability of character.1902, William James, “Lecture I”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC

Noun

psychopathic (plural psychopathics)

  1. (dated) A psychopath.

psychopathic meaning in Hindi and Malayalam

psychopathic in Hindi

relating to a psychopath
पागलपन pāgalpan, मतिभ्रंश matibhrañś, उन्माद unmād

psychopathic in Malayalam

mad, mentally ill, insane
ഭ്രാന്തുള്ള, ഭ്രാന്ത, ദൃപ്ര, ദൃപ്ത, ഭൗത, ചിത്തഭ്രമമുള്ള

Examples of psychopathic in a sentence

  • There's nothing like portraying a psychopathic bunny-boiler to boost one's self-esteem, Glenn Close tells Ladies' Home Journal.
  • Boyer's try at stinkerdom was his psychopathic persecution of Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight.
  • Elation over small successes and discouragement over slight failures is a characteristic practically always found among these psychopathic children.

All 12 example sentences with psychopathic

Forms of psychopathic

Adjective
comparativemore psychopathic
superlativemost psychopathic
Noun
pluralpsychopathics

Origin of psychopathic

From psycho- + -pathic.

Words formed from psychopathic

Questions about psychopathic

What does psychopathic mean?
Psychopathic means exhibiting the behaviors and personality traits of a psychopath.
What is psychopathic in Hindi?
Psychopathic in Hindi is पागलपन (pāgalpan), मतिभ्रंश (matibhrañś), उन्माद (unmād). See Psychopathic meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is psychopathic?
Psychopathic can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce psychopathic?
Psychopathic is pronounced /ˌsaɪkoʊˈpæθɪk/ (US).

Words near psychopathic in the dictionary

  1. psychopannychistic
  2. psychopannychists
  3. psychopannychy
  4. psychoparesis
  5. psychopath
  6. psychopathic
  7. psychopathically
  8. psychopathics
  9. psychopathies
  10. psychopathist
  11. psychopathists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: psychopathic (page history and authors); psychopathic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset 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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