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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
paranoiac
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Most of my friends are thin, and sometimes I have this paranoiac feeling that they are using me.
▪ Sentence 9, on the other hand, can be seen as a sort of ironic hyperbole: Arthur is paranoiac.
▪ She has welcomed the oppressed and disowned of the world to this paranoiac dreamscape for nearly a hundred years.
▪ They shared with the rest of their race an almost paranoiac fear and hatred for the informer.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paranoiac

Paranoiac \Par`a*noi"ac\, n. A person affected with paranoia.

Paranoiac

Paranoiac \Par`a*noi"ac\ (p[a^]r`[.a]*noi"[a^]k), a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to paranoia; affected with, or characteristic of, paranoia; paranoid.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
paranoiac

1892 (n. and adj.), from paranoia on model of maniac, etc.

Wiktionary
paranoiac

a. Pertaining to (l en paranoia). alt. Pertaining to (l en paranoia). n. Somebody who has paranoia, a paranoid person.

WordNet
paranoiac

n. a person afflicted with paranoia [syn: paranoid]

Wikipedia
Paranoiac (film)

Paranoiac is a 1963 British suspense film from Hammer Films. Directed by Freddie Francis, it stars Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Sheila Burrell, and Alexander Davion. The screenplay was written by Jimmy Sangster, based loosely on the 1949 crime novel, Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey.

Usage examples of "paranoiac".

The distance took on odd shapes and forms, and it was impossible not to give them some kind of unreasoned paranoiac cause.

And he came out of it a paranoiac, convinced that he was the source of all sin.

Look Collier, you can take a paranoiac, put him in an aircraft and fly him over Paris at a thousand feet, pointing out the streams of cars and everything new in the last century and a half.

Starbucks tragic fate, and the bewildering, paranoiac words of Commander Dupree.

Miss Don was undoubtedly displeased with me, as was a nameless pregnant woman, the denizens of the lounge, a paranoiac Parchester, and the staff of Happy Meadows.

Kea could have done a more exact job of stage-managing, but he knew just how sensitive and paranoiac the incompetent were.

This, in fact, caused the professional paranoiacs of Security to worry that these creations were actually in some way controlled by the computer, a device to circumvent the two human safeguards by putting its own slaves at both positions.

The professional paranoiacs and security officers of the FBI, CIA, NSA, and other agencies knew that there were no ancient conspiracies.

Richard Nixon, bloated by power and doubt, started with a little bark when named by Judge Sirica as an unindicted co-conspirator of the Watergate Boys, and went on to rage in a farting cornucopia on national TV, convincing almost every Great American by his overreaction and gushing paranoiac railing at other Great Americans that he was as guilty as anyone had imagined.

The professional paranoiacs and security officers of the FBI, CIA, NSA, and other agencies knew that there were no ancient conspiracies.

She still suspected that he viewed everything as a paranoiac fantasy that she had woven from her own subconscious.

CNN had a story, but like a lot of CNN stuff, most of it seemed to have been garbled by a mentally challenged paranoiac.

This is the price we pay for 15 years of mediocre Mexican weed -- we've got a nation of frothing paranoiacs on our hands.

Also, any event like this one attracted all sorts of conspiracy theories and minority reports, offered by whistle-blower clubs, accountability hobbyists, solitary paranoiacs, autonomous whatif agents or wandering yesbut avatars.

Almost all the victims of Tuol Sleng were themselves Khmer Rouge, or relatives of Khmer Rouge, who fell afoul of party doctrine at a time when that doctrine, in addition to changing almost daily, was actually known only to a select and increasingly paranoiac inner circle that included Pol Pot and Khieu Samphan.