psychopathic
pronunciation
How to pronounce psychopathic in British English:
UK [ˌsaɪkə'pæθɪk]
How to pronounce psychopathic in American English:
US [ˌsaɪkəˈpæθɪk]
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- Adjective:
- suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder
Word Origin
- psychopathic (adj.)
- 1847, from psychopathy on model of German psychopatisch, from Greek psykhe- "mind" (see psyche) + pathos "suffering" (see pathos).
Example
- 1. There are mentally unstable killers who display psychopathic or sociopathic tendencies .
- 2. A psychopathic buddhist warrior-king hardly sounds plausible in fiction , let alone in modern history .
- 3. So he was going down the psychopathic checklist , basically turning it into " who moved my cheese ? "
- 4. Taken together , these cues gave the psychopathic men a rough gauge of how confident their potential victims were .
- 5. In the mid-60s , hare was working as a prison psychologist in vancouver . He put word around the prison that he was looking for psychopathic and non-psychopathic volunteers for tests .