: characterized by suspiciousness, persecutory trends, or megalomania
behaving in a paranoid manner with accusations of persecutions
3
: extremely fearful
was so paranoid that he was afraid to walk the streets
paranoidnoun
Example Sentences
I guess I was just being paranoid. She's a little paranoid about her job. It's nothing more than a paranoid fantasy.
Recent Examples on the WebPaulson as the ever-paranoid Ally believes all of these headscratchers are part of a Trumpian conspiracy that's out to get her, but audiences were left struggling to connect the dots. Allaire Nuss, EW.com, 20 July 2022 Hall had become increasingly paranoid about driving himself to drug deals and thought Floyd could take the wheel.Washington Post, 9 May 2022 This was a man who was extremely sensitive to—indeed, often quite paranoid about—the threat of political attack. Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 17 June 2022 For centuries, Russia has often been derided as overly, if not pathologically, paranoid: always suspicious of outsiders while harboring plans of conquest. Gregory Carleton, The Conversation, 18 Apr. 2022 With Kimi, Soderbergh effectively remixes the paranoid thriller for the age of surveillance capitalism. Vikram Murthi, The Week, 11 Feb. 2022 The only difference between this film and a classic paranoid thriller like The Conversation is that now everyone is perfectly aware that they’re being listened to at all times. David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2022 That approach makes a person paranoid and defensive, reasonably enough.BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2021 In Ferdinando Cito Filomarino's paranoid thriller Beckett, John David Washington takes an international trip that's anything but relaxing. Devan Coggan, EW.com, 17 June 2021 See More