Crossword clues for neurotic
neurotic
- Woody Allen-like
- See circled squares
- A person suffering from neurosis
- Full of anxieties
- Obsessive jerk going after new money from abroad
- Obsessive knight, socially acceptable, wearing blue?
- Anxious note -- endless credit needed to secure international currency
- Unstable northern union leader dressed in blue?
- Unstable new currency gets nervous reaction
- Emotionally unstable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Neurotic \Neu*rot"ic\, a. [Gr. ney^ron nerve.]
Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous; as, a neurotic disease.
Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.
Of or pertaining to neurosis[2]; characteristic of neurosis[2]; caused by neurosis[2].
Neurotic \Neu*rot"ic\, n.
A disease seated in the nerves.
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(Med.) Any toxic agent whose action is mainly directed to the great nerve centers. Note: Neurotics as a class include all those poisons whose main action is upon the brain and spinal cord. They may be divided into three orders:
Cerebral neurotics, or those which affect the brain only.
Spinal neurotics, or tetanics, those which affect the spinal cord.
Cerebro-spinal neurotics, or those which affect both brain and spinal cord.
A person afflicted with a neurosis[2].
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1775, "acting upon or stimulating the nerves," from Greek neuron "nerve" (see neuro-) + -otic, as in hypnotic. Sense of "affected by neurosis" is 1887. The noun meaning "a neurotic person" is from 1896. Related: Neurotically.
Wiktionary
a. 1 affected with a neurosis. 2 (lb en informal) over anxious. 3 (lb en medicine) Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves. n. A person who has a neurosis
WordNet
n. a person suffering from neurosis [syn: psychoneurotic, mental case]
adj. characteristic of or affected by neurosis; "neurotic disorder"; "neurotic symptoms"
affected with emotional disorder [syn: psychoneurotic] [ant: unneurotic]
Wikipedia
Neurotic may refer to:
- Neurosis, a class of functional mental disorders involving distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations
- Neuroticism, a fundamental personality trait characterized by anxiety, moodiness, worry, envy and jealousy
- Neurotic (EP), an EP by The Bouncing Souls
Neurotic is the fourth EP released by the New Jersey punk band The Bouncing Souls. It was released on Chunksaah Records in 1994. All of the songs on here were later released on The Good, The Bad & The Argyle.
Usage examples of "neurotic".
It was already known that bees could die from too much stress, and now some claimed that the extensive patrolling of the invaders, the disappearance of monogyny - rule by a single queen - from the mass swarms, or the difficulty of preparing for winter at such a late date had made the bees functionally neurotic and suicidal.
With this new understanding, the fear, neurotic behavior, or psychosomatic complaint will go away, supposedly.
Sorkin, like most psychosomatic-level neurotics, was spiteful to his enemies and overgenerous to his friends.
It was in this monstrous environment that Carlo grew up, an immensely talented and profoundly neurotic member of the overprivileged minority.
Headaches or neuralgic pains, due to local irritations, as uterine disease, stricture, neurotic or nerve tumors, pressure of trusses, eye strain from weakened eye muscles, or lenses that need the help of proper spectacles, require for a permanent cure the removal of the cause.
What did the anguish of a boozy, Biblethumping neurotic count next to his monumental dynastic tragedy?
It was very of sex without sense, boring of estridentes celebrations, patient to elbow itself with ambitious neurotic and estrellitas actresses, and completely displeased with the life that was living.
Out beyond the campus was a world full of blacks and Jews and spastics and neurotics and homosexuals and other misfits, but I had come up three cherries on the great slot machine of life and I was proud of my luck.
Grinning, he told an off-color joke about the sexual problems of certain neurotics, and finished on a more savage note.
So long as the Null-As were on one planet, they were at the mercy of people who might become afraid of them because they were different, people who would shortly be justifying the execution of millions of other neurotics like themselves, and who would also presently discover that the new weapons which they were being offered were not invincible.
I twisted in my pneumatic womb symbol, trying to think of something I could do, but all I could think of was a foolish phrase that kept running through my mind on anapestic feet:In the country of the normal the neurotic man is king .
And the schizoid cats with clotted fur that lurk around Ennet House cringing and neurotic and afraid of their own shadow are too risky, for the female residents are always formulating attachments to them.
Heritagist poseurs trying to buy themselves the illusion that their neurotic drug-addicted promiscuous bulimic dyslexic brats had one single grain of brains or talent.
It appears that on March 1st, 1925, a thin, dark young man of neurotic and excited aspect had called upon Professor Angell bearing the singular clay bas-relief, which was then exceedingly damp and fresh.
It appears that on 1 March 1925, a thin, dark young man of neurotic and excited aspect had called upon Professor Angell bearing the singular clay bas-relief, which was then exceedingly damp and fresh.