Neurotic

/n(j)ʊəˈɹɒtɪk/ · adjective

Meaning

Affected with a neurosis..

Definitions by Sense

1. Affected with a neurosis.
2. (informal) Overly anxious.
3. (medicine) Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.
4. (medicine) A person who has a neurosis.
5. (informal) A crazy person.

Example Sentences

If there were such a thing as inspiration from a higher realm, it might well be that the neurotic temperament would furnish the chief condition of the requisite receptivity.

He is getting neurotic about time-keeping.

“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men,[…], the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis,[…]!”

“You did come down a wallop, didn't you? How art thou fallen from heaven, oh Lucifer, son of the morning, I said to myself. You're so terribly neurotic, Bertie. You must try to be less jumpy. What you need is a good nerve tonic.”

Elisheva Lambert called herself a “totally neurotic Jew from Toronto who is doing everything my parents didn’t want me to.[…]”

Drag this neurotic to hysterics, leave him balked and unfulfilled; holding inside, outwardly patient 'til the time he'll call it.

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• neurotics

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