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neurotic

/noo-rot-ik, nyoo-/US // nʊˈrɒt ɪk, nyʊ- //UK // (njʊˈrɒtɪk) //

神经质的,神经质,神经过敏,神经质的人

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of neurosis.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a neurotic person.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.mentally maladjusted
Forms: neurotics

Examples

  • After Monday’s column on my dog Archie’s separation anxiety, I think I could assemble an entire pack of neurotic pooches.

  • I was also fearful of failure, neurotic, a perfectionist, ambitious—undoubtedly to the point of being unbearable.

  • For instance, firstborn children in this data set might be a little more cautious, but they were also less neurotic than later-born children.

  • With a narrative whipsawing among four neurotic protagonists, “Paradise, Nevada” charts a collision course through the gaming industry, grappling with Vegas’s objectifying entertainment complex and accelerating tech sphere.

  • It was quite interesting, its title was Rejoice That You Are Neurotic.

  • As a result, Akerman said CrowdMed may appeal to the more neurotic of us who wish to be “armchair physicians.”

  • In the early 1900s, Sigmund Freud began to explore in earnest the similarities between neurotic behavior and ritual.

  • You give the weakest and the worst interpretation of my devotion: the neurotic one.

  • Equal parts compassionate and neurotic, Farmiga plays Norma with an intense level of adrenaline.

  • Here is my pet theory of the gouty origin of neurasthenia and perhaps Beard's neurotic constitution, beloved of rhinologists.

  • Neurotic tendencies which unfit women for marriage—the desire for domination.

  • Sexual anæsthesia another neurotic trait which interferes with marital harmony.

  • She glared at him with the wild look that frequently comes to the hysterical or neurotic woman's eyes.

  • The condition is probably of neurotic origin and tends to recur.