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neurotic

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adjective

neu·​rot·​ic nu̇-ˈrä-tik How to pronounce neurotic (audio)
nyu̇-
: of, relating to, constituting, or affected with neurosis (see neurosis)
neurotically
nu̇-ˈrä-ti-k(ə-)lē How to pronounce neurotic (audio)
nyu̇-
adverb

neurotic

2 of 2

noun

1
: one affected with a neurosis (see neurosis)
2
: an emotionally unstable individual

Example Sentences

Adjective This most fastidious of pianists sounds anything but neurotic when he plays Mozart. Richard Coles, Times Literary Supplement, 15 Nov. 2002 Maybe it's because novelists don't talk much about each other. Maybe this is because novelists secrete a certain BO which only other novelists detect, like certain buzzards who emit a repellent pheromone detectable only by other buzzards, which is to say that only a novelist can know how neurotic, devious, underhanded a novelist can be. Walker Percy, "An Interview With Zoltán Abádi-Nagy," 1987, in Signposts in a Strange Land,  1991 In our own time, the most perfect examples of such biography … are the matchless case-histories of Freud. Freud here shows, with absolute clarity, that the on-going nature of neurotic illness and its treatment cannot be displayed except by biography. Oliver Sacks, Awakenings, (1973) 1990 The psychiatrist diagnosed the patient as neurotic. My neurotic mother scolded me for staying out 10 minutes past curfew. He is neurotic about his job. Noun More than any rebirth, one senses in the England of 1911 a civilization's unconscious death wish, vividly present in the author's glimpses of the poet Rupert Brooke, that squeaky-clean neurotic, a casualty waiting to happen. Thomas Mallon, New York Times Book Review, 27 May 2007 As a claustrophobe—perhaps the only kind of neurotic out of place in New York—I find nothing in the city more terrifying than a stalled subway car. John Tierney, New York Times Magazine, 19 Mar. 1995 You are too much something for a tubercular neurotic who can only be jealous and mean and perverse. F. Scott Fitzgerald, letter, 2 Dec. 1939 He was diagnosed as a neurotic. He is a neurotic about keeping his clothes neat. See More
Recent Examples on the Web
Adjective
Transforming from the capable-if-neurotic Los Angeles lawyer Jennifer Walters into her green, six-foot-seven alter-ego known as She-Hulk. Adam B. Vary, Variety, 18 Aug. 2022 The book itself brims filled with neurotic psychotics and Pop Culture debris, kooky killers with offbeat nicknames and more spilled Type O than a blood bank in a Mack Sennett two-reeler. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2022 Jon Ronson brings an inquisitive, empathetic, and slightly neurotic intelligence to bear on fascinating and often surprising tales. Simon Hill, Wired, 4 Aug. 2022 Luna is wonderfully deranged as Chip, a neurotic squirrel with the ability to control electricity. Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 26 July 2022 The wildly neurotic director, René Vidal (Vincent Macaigne), has a bad habit of verbally and sometimes physically attacking his actors. Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2022 High anxiety participants displayed reduced levels of neurotic traits after a psychedelic experience. Mark Travers, Forbes, 6 July 2022 The delayists are cleverly exploiting the weakness in climate discourse: the movement’s tendency—perhaps born of privilege, or perhaps its own form of neurotic denial—to speak of climate change as a dramatic nightmare that hasn’t yet arrived. Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 15 June 2022 Over the years, people tend to get happier, more creative, less neurotic, more agreeable, and more conscientious. Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 26 May 2022
Noun
Kruger has the moxie to play Marie as a standoffish neurotic, Nyong’o creates an unusually emotional hacker, and Cruz, as the one who’s more devoted to her family than to global realpolitik, proves the sweetest of wild cards. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Jan. 2022 Seinfeld, which stars Jerry Seinfeld as a fictionalized version of himself, pokes fun at neurotics like Seinfeld and his friends, who overthink and worry about too many little things. Nina Huang, EW.com, 1 May 2020 Learn about the connection between neurotics and Brexit. Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2018 But economy-class neurotics will have to make do while their shrink answers emails or knits cardigans during their sessions. Joe Queenan, WSJ, 11 May 2018 See More

Word History

Etymology

Adjective

neur(osis) + -otic entry 1

Noun

derivative of neurotic entry 1

First Known Use

Adjective

1866, in the meaning defined above

Noun

1896, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of neurotic was in 1866

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