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paranoid

/par-uh-noid/US // ˈpær əˌnɔɪd //UK // (ˈpærəˌnɔɪd) //

偏执狂,妄想症,多疑,疑神疑鬼

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, like, or experiencing paranoia.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person with paranoia.

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Examples

  • “One continues to wonder,” Buckley wrote, “how it is that the membership of the John Birch Society tolerates such paranoid and unpatriotic drivel.”

  • “In retrospect, it’s a bit of a pity, when we could have been discussing logistics and operations, but everyone was really paranoid,” the state official said.

  • The late British essayist Christopher Hitchens once described Pakistan as a “humorless, paranoid, insecure” nation.

  • Apple is more paranoid about privacy than Amazon or Google, though that means the HomePod mini isn’t as widely capable in the smart home — it still can’t operate things like the most popular doorbells and thermostats.

  • Those of us who live in a city are not sure about how paranoid to be.

  • “I was so paranoid that I would shred the receipts,” she said.

  • As for his harsh—some might even say paranoid—opposition to European integration, “most of us would support him.”

  • He became paranoid that his bride would be kidnapped, and told her to never go to the same place twice.

  • And in a culture as paranoid as ours, we freak out about them all the time.

  • He becomes increasingly paranoid by the societal fixtures around him—a ticking clock, a ringing phone.

  • But if you want to understand security, you need to consider the most paranoid possibilities.

  • Even if it's a paranoid constitutional inferior like Jimmy's father.

  • Then the paranoid symptoms appear; he imagines himself surrounded by envious enemies, who are conspiring against him.

  • Aside from this paranoid complex he had a complete left-sided functional hemiplegia with all the concomitant signs.

  • This group he again subdivides into the querulent and hallucinatory paranoid forms.