Synonyms for neurotic
nʊˈrɒt ɪk, nyʊ-neu·rot·ic

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1. neurotic, psychoneurotic, mental caseadjective

   a person suffering from neurosis

   Synonyms:
   mental case, psychoneurotic

   Antonyms:
   together, unneurotic

2. neuroticadjective

   characteristic of or affected by neurosis

   "neurotic disorder"; "neurotic symptoms"

   Synonyms:
   psychoneurotic

   Antonyms:
   unneurotic, together

3. neurotic, psychoneuroticadjective

   affected with emotional disorder

   Synonyms:
   psychoneurotic

   Antonyms:
   unneurotic, together

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1. List of paraphrases for "neurotic":

   paranoid

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1. Judy Garland:

   People think of me as a neurotic kid, full of fits and depressions, biting my fingernails to the bone, living under an eternal shadow of illness and collapse. Why do people insist on seeing an aura of tragedy around me always? My life isn’t tragic at all. I laugh a lot these days. At myself, too. Lord, if I couldn’t laugh at myself I don’t think I’d be alive.

2. Norman O. Brown:

   All currency is neurotic currency.

3. Dr. Karl Menninger:

   Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

4. Marlon Brando:

   Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

5. Theodore Isaac Rubin:

   "The most prevalent and destructive fear is not of sickness or death itself. It is the fear of being human. All of our neurotic symptoms are retaliation against ourselves for daring to be human, this is less than godlike martyrs or masters. This is what psychotherapy is all about: getting over the fear of being human.