psychotic
pronunciation
How to pronounce psychotic in British English:
UK [saɪˈkɒtɪk]
How to pronounce psychotic in American English:
US [saɪˈkɑtɪk]
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- Noun:
- a person afflicted with psychosis
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- Adjective:
- suffering from psychosis
Word Origin
- psychotic (adj.)
- 1889, coined from psychosis, on the model of neurotic/neurosis, from Greek psykhe- "mind, soul" (see psyche).
- psychotic (n.)
- "a psychotic person," 1901, from psychotic (adj.).
Example
- 1. It is widely accepted that drugs like lsd and methamphetamine can trigger psychotic episodes .
- 2. Analysis of use of antipsychotic drugs in 658 psychotic outpatients .
- 3. Applying wundt 's association experiments to psychiatric problems , kraepelin found that the associations made by psychotic patients were similar to those made by fatigued or intoxicated subjects .
- 4. But I 'll make it sound psychotic .
- 5. I remember being suicidal at about 12 , but I didn 't become psychotic until my teenage years when I started to smoke marijuana .