psychotic
/ˌsaɪˈkɒtɪk/
psychotic adjective: of, related to, or suffering from psychosis.
Adjective
psychotic (comparative more psychotic, superlative most psychotic)
- Of, related to, or suffering from psychosis.
- Direct evidence on psychotic behavior is the presence of either delusions or hallucinations (without insight into their pathological nature).1995, José A. Valciukas, Forensic Neuropsychology, page 277
- Increasing data suggests that regular marijuana use in adolescence may also be a risk factor for developing very serious psychotic disorders, especially schizophrenia.2014 January 24, Dr. Charles Raison, “Here’s what to do about your anxiety”, in CNN
- Out of control, bizarre, or crazy.
- Full-bodied tribal rhythms, weird bendy bass lines, screechy high-end guitar melodies, and more psychotic lyrics about "Tension," "Butchers," and "Madness."2012, Jodi.C.King, I Was a Killing Joke: A Bird's Eye View
- This had left the mother feeling "psychotic" and "helpless" because she could not change the family, the school, and society that she said had all caused the son harm.2013, Trent Bax, Youth and Internet Addiction in China
Noun
psychotic (plural psychotics)
- A person affected by psychosis.
psychotic meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
psychotic in Hindi
- मनोविकृत
psychotic in Tamil
- உளநோயர், உளப்பிணியர்
psychotic in Malayalam
- mad, mentally ill, insane
- ഭ്രാന്തുള്ള, ഭ്രാന്ത, ദൃപ്ര, ദൃപ്ത, ഭൗത, ചിത്തഭ്രമമുള്ള
psychotic in Kannada
- ಮನೋವಿಕೃತ
Examples of psychotic in a sentence
- She suffered psychotic episodes during which she believed herself to be spied upon by light bulbs.2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 152:
- She couldn't possibly know that I was parking in the same spot to visit my psychotic wife on the third floor of the hospital, the floor that needed a special elevator for access.2017, Mark Lukach, My Lovely Wife: A Memoir of Madness and Hope:
- And if you ever try to record one of our conversations again, I'll set the dogs on you and your psychotic friends, and let them tear you all apart.2017, John Connolly, A Game of Ghosts, page 14:
Forms of psychotic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more psychotic |
| superlative | most psychotic |
| Noun | |
| plural | psychotics |
Origin of psychotic
Derived in English from psychosis + -tic; compare French psychotique, German psychotisch. Attested from the late 19th century. Compare earlier neurotic.
Words formed from psychotic
Phrases with psychotic
Questions about psychotic
- What does psychotic mean?
- Psychotic means of, related to, or suffering from psychosis.
- What is psychotic in Hindi?
- Psychotic in Hindi is मनोविकृत. See Psychotic meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use psychotic in a sentence?
- She suffered psychotic episodes during which she believed herself to be spied upon by light bulbs.
- What part of speech is psychotic?
- Psychotic can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce psychotic?
- Psychotic is pronounced /ˌsaɪˈkɒtɪk/.
Words near psychotic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: psychotic (page history and authors); psychotic (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); psychotic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); psychotic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); psychotic (Kannada, 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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