sociopathic
/sˌoʊsɪəpˈæθɪk/
adjectiverelating to or exhibiting extreme antisocial attitudes and behaviors that are perceived as signs of a personality disorder
Click to see examples
Examples
1. This was a person with sociopathic tendencies.
2. Kevin Garnett is borderline sociopathic about winning.
3. This game is as much about sociopathic charisma as anything.
4. Is it sociopathic?
5. - She's just playing a sociopathic character.
psychosomatic
/saɪˌkoʊsəˈmætɪk/
adjective(of a physical illness) caused or aggravated by mental factors, such as stress and anxiety
Click to see examples
Examples
1. It's all psychosomatic.
2. If they can't find a specific trigger or reason for the pain were told that it's not happening and that it's psychosomatic that we're doing in our head.
3. The apparent symptoms have been explained as everything from hormonal changes to a psychosomatic condition.
4. It could be psychosomatic, but I feel like-- and also to be fair, I will stand by this, you can get really, really good bottles of wine for $11.
5. In turn, this leads to psychosomatic pain.
psychopathic
/ˌsaɪkəˈpæθɪk/
adjectivesuffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder
Click to see examples
Examples
1. Certainly many people with criminal records don't fit that psychopathic profile.
2. Because it became a psychopathic family of clowns.
3. And again, these are psychopathic traits as well.
4. They Have Many Sides: psychopathic behavior is always changing.
5. Those with psychopathic brains displayed a much higher level of activity in their nucleus accumbens.
manic-depressive
/mˈænɪkdɪpɹˈɛsɪv/
adjectiverelating to or suffering from bipolar disorder
Click to see examples
Examples
1. His moods followed a manic-depressive pattern, fluctuating between euphoria that Germany was about to crush the Allies and despair that all was lost.
2. This was defined in his book, Manic-depressive Insanity and Paranoia, published in 1921, and this is where we get the term manic depression, which we also don't use as an official term anymore.
3. In 1980, the Third Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders was published, and manic-depressive insanity was split into bipolar disorder and unipolar depression.
4. Keep in mind that bipolar spectrum or the original manic-depressive insanity did include having recurring depressions without a manic episode.
5. But to be fair, chemical engineers as a group haven't really earned a reputation over the centuries for being alcoholic manic-depressives.
maladjusted
/ˌmæɫəˈdʒəstɪd/
adjective(of a person) characterized by being emotionally unstable and incapable of coping with the demands of a normal social environment
Click to see examples
Examples
1. Eastern India, sometime in the fifth century BC A wealthy young Indian prince, Siddhartha Gautama, later known as The Buddha, The Enlightened One, comes to a key realization about human beings: all of us are deeply maladjusted, unhappy creatures.
2. You talk about maladjusted.
3. Some physical consequences to nail biting can include sore red fingernails, bleeding, a risk of infection, contamination (finger to mouth), teeth weakening, maladjusted teeth, and more.
disordered
/dɪˈsɔɹdɝd/
adjectiveaffected by an abnormal physical or mental condition
Click to see examples
Examples
1. It creates a more disordered state.
2. The world always becomes more and more disordered.
3. "What is the difference between disordered eating "and an eating disorder?
4. His disordered dress showed that he had been hastily aroused from sleep.
5. I always attributed my failure at these points to the disordered state of his health.
Examples
1. Because the relationship is real unbalanced.
2. So, off the bat, our encounter will be unbalanced.
3. It was woefully unbalanced.
4. Things get very unbalanced sometimes.
5. With the overuse of antibiotics, dental products, and several other cosmetics, your gut becomes unbalanced with good and bad bacteria.
shell-shocked
/ʃˈɛlʃˈɑːkt/
nounaffected by a traumatic event, often resulting in symptoms such as anxiety, depression, and distress
Click to see examples
Examples
1. Literally, there's this great television footage of him where he just looks shell-shocked.
2. The FIGHTING where SHELL-SHOCKED residents struggled to escape.
3. The drill won't leave Sam shell-shocked.
4. You see people who are really shell-shocked.
5. It was, I think, in World War II, it’s called shell-shocked.
schizophrenic
/ˌʃɪzəˈfɹɛnɪk/
adjectivesuffering from or relating to schizophrenia
Click to see examples
Examples
1. He's schizophrenic.
2. Are they schizophrenic?
3. Schizophrenics hear voices.
4. So some schizophrenics might just not talk.
5. Schizophrenics seem to really have more stressful family environments than non-schizophrenics.
psychotic
/ˌsaɪˈkɑtɪk/
adjective(of a mental condition) affecting brain processes so severely that makes one unable to tell the difference between reality and fantasy
Click to see examples
Examples
1. That's psychotic.
2. The psychotic symptoms are hallucinations, delusions, or severe thought or behavioral disorganization.
3. I had a psychotic break.
4. That was psychotic.
5. Some of my friends are psychotic.
paranoid
/ˈpɛɹəˌnɔɪd/
adjectiveunreasonably scared of other people or thinking that they are trying to cause harm
Click to see examples
Examples
1. You're paranoid.
2. You guys are paranoid.
3. - Gabriel Diaz is paranoid.
4. The first one is paranoid schizophrenia.
5. Which signs are more paranoid than the others?
melancholic
/ˌmɛɫənˈkɑɫɪk/
adjectivecharacterized by or causing or expressing sadness
Click to see examples
Examples
1. With melancholic depression, you don't have much positive response when good things happen.
2. And with melancholic depression, you lose your appetite and you may lose weight.
3. With melancholic depression, you can be very slowed down where you move about slowly.
4. And with melancholic depression you feel worse first thing in the mornings.
5. whatever and I'm not I'm not so melancholic
Examples
1. She certainly did not look desperate or mad enough to have tried to murder her master.
2. If you were mad, I wouldn't hate you.
3. I shall be alone with that mad woman upstairs.
4. They're all mad!
5. The whole country went mad.
deranged
/dɪˈɹeɪndʒd/
adjectiveincapable of behaving normally or thinking clearly due to mental illness
Click to see examples
Examples
1. From the inside-looking out, it feels all very deranged.
2. I become deranged for three turns.
3. He sees deranged conspiracies everywhere.
4. The lovable little creature looks more like a deranged hobo who's been trapped on the ice for 40 years.
5. My name is Deranged Pitt.
Examples
1. Some parents even looked at the demented Countess as a source of ready revenue, selling their children to her for a lump sum.
2. You know Furbys say demented stuff like, "Oh, chop me in half."
3. This is like a punishment on a demented internet show.
4. We also can confirm that it’s not a person stalking them, this thing has a demented claw hand.
5. The two demented prodigy spend seven months making their murderous plans.
confused
/kənˈfjuzd/
adjectivementally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently
Click to see examples
Examples
1. - You guys look confused.
2. My patients are confused.
3. Confused, the tortoise changes his course, away from the little owl's nest.
4. Confused, the tortoise changes his course, away from the little owl's nest.
5. My patients are confused.
