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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
schizoid is an adjective and noun meaning "of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia". It carries 3 recorded senses.
of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia
marked by withdrawal and inability to form close relationships
characterized by symptoms similar to but less severe than schizophrenia
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for schizoid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.