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Meanings of neurotic in English
Affected with emotional disorder.
Synonyms
Examples for "mental case"
Examples for "mental case"
1
He turns out to be a prince who is a mental case.
2
That a mental case searching for an imaginary baby didn't want his help?
3
Sweet Jesus, thinks Tom Pellegrini, nothing like working murders with a mental case.
4
The auto thief was a mental case, no question about it.
5
Here, after all, was a full-fledged mental case for April to observe and contemplate.
Disturbance.
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Usage of neurotic in English
1
When her older children came home, she lost her almost neurotic puzzlement.
2
There is only power and its constant neurotic need to reassert itself.
3
These differences help to confirm the validity of the neurotic depression concept.
4
The neurotic depressives were younger and more likely to identify precipitating factors.
5
You can find neurotic people who obsess about food from any ethnicity.
6
She is herself energetic in character, and with a somewhat neurotic temperament.
7
Nor is it reflected in any mellowing of Kane's neurotic, hyperactive manner.
8
We may not be unhappy, neurotic, mad; our complexes must be inspected.
9
But there's a balance to be struck between hoarding and neurotic asceticism.
10
If you could make it a profession it can be really neurotic.
11
It should go to Sian Clifford as Claire, Fleabag's highly neurotic sister.
12
He's like an amalgam of every neurotic Woody Allen character ever created.
13
A slightly neurotic vein of prolonged ephebeitis pervades much of his life.
14
I am neurotic, corrupt, and I ought to be despised for it.
15
My sister was just as pretty, but she was the neurotic one.
16
Simon Katich played with the neurotic, scratchy intensity of a post-punk frontman.
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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