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neurotic

Pronunciation: /njʊəˈrɒtɪk/

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Definition of neurotic

adjective

Medicine
  • having, caused by, or relating to neurosis.
  • (in non-technical use) abnormally sensitive, obsessive, or anxious:he seemed a neurotic, self-obsessed character

noun

  • a neurotic person: I wasn’t going to be labelled as a hypochondriac or neurotic

Derivatives

neurotically

adverb

neuroticism

Pronunciation: /-sɪz(ə)m/

noun

neurotic in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of neurotic in the US English dictionary