as in paranoid
having or showing a very nervous or disordered state of mind
Her neurotic tendencies tend to manifest in her obsessive need for cleanliness. Our dog is a bit neurotic; she tends to panic around strangers.
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Recent Examples of neurotic
While Kidman’s Masha is back, this time lording over a group of needy and neurotic folks in the Bavarian Alps, the dull and draggy new season (premiering May 21) has little of the humor and emotional weight that made the original worth watching.
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Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 19 May 2025
The neurotic inner monologue can take up only so much of the page.
—Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 19 May 2025
Étoile’s initially unwieldy ensemble also includes Tobias Bell (Maisel’s Gideon Glick), a fragile, neurotic American choreographer whose unorthodox style challenges tradition-loving French audiences.
—Judy Berman, Time, 23 Apr. 2025
Hollywood has always been a neurotic industry, but the current anxiety, uncertainty, and job losses are acute.
—Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 5 May 2025
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Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 19 May 2025
The neurotic inner monologue can take up only so much of the page.
—Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 19 May 2025
Étoile’s initially unwieldy ensemble also includes Tobias Bell (Maisel’s Gideon Glick), a fragile, neurotic American choreographer whose unorthodox style challenges tradition-loving French audiences.
—Judy Berman, Time, 23 Apr. 2025
Hollywood has always been a neurotic industry, but the current anxiety, uncertainty, and job losses are acute.
—Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 5 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for neurotic
paranoid
Adjective
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Hostile or disapproving questions about a silly meme, however, would raise the bar for paranoid border defense to an absurd new level.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
25 June 2025
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TikTok is full of viral paranoid suggestions for ways to test your relationship and ludicrous theories about the One Way to know if any relationship will work.—
Jia Tolentino,
New Yorker,
23 June 2025
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“Neurotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neurotic. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.
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