neurotic

1. 1.

   a person suffering from neurosis

   Synonymspsychoneuroticmental case

   Broadersick person

   Narrowerclaustrophobehystericobsessiveobsessive-compulsivesociopath

Other forms of neurotic

plural

neurotics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about neurotic

What does neurotic mean?

neurotic means "characteristic of or affected by neurosis". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in neurotic?

neurotic has 3 syllables: neu-ro-tic. The stress falls on "ro". In IPA it is /nʊˈɹɑtɪk/.

What is another word for neurotic?

Close synonyms include psychoneurotic, psychoneurotic, mental case. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of neurotic?

The recorded antonyms are unneurotic.

Is neurotic a common word?

neurotic is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with neurotic?

1 word rhymes with neurotic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.