psychoneurotic

1. 1.

   affected with emotional disorder

   Synonymsneurotic

   Similarabuliccompulsivedelusionaldisturbedhypochondriachystericmegalomaniacalmonomaniacal

Other forms of psychoneurotic

plural

psychoneurotics·

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 psychoneurotic

What does psychoneurotic mean?

psychoneurotic means "a person suffering from neurosis". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in psychoneurotic?

psychoneurotic has 6 syllables: psy-cho-ne-u-ro-tic. The stress falls on "ro".

What is another word for psychoneurotic?

Close synonyms include neurotic, mental case, neurotic. 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.

Is psychoneurotic a common word?

psychoneurotic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.