Psycho
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English
Adjective
Psycho (comparative more Psycho, superlative most Psycho)
- (colloquial or pejoative) Psychotic, or otherwise insane.
Noun
Psycho (plural Psychos)- (pejorative, slang) A person who is psychotic or otherwise insane.
- The loony bin up on the hill is full of psychos.
- (pejorative, slang) A person who acts in a bizarre or dangerous manner.
- She complained that he was a psycho for driving at such a high speed in heavy traffic.
- (informal) A class, at a college or university, in which psychology is taught.
- "I've got anthro, socio, lunch, and psycho."
Synonyms
- (pejorative for a pyschotic or otherwise insane person): freak, loony, nutcase, wacko
- (pejorative for a person acting in a bizarre or dangerous manner): creep, freak, loose cannon, weirdo
Thesaurus
abnormal, bereft of reason, brainsick, catatoniac, certifiable case, crackbrained, cracked, crazed, crazy, daft, deluded, demented, deprived of reason, deranged, disoriented, distraught, flighty, hallucinated, insane, irrational, loco, lunatic, mad, maddened, manic, manic-depressive, mazed, mental, mental case, mentally deficient, meshuggah, moon-struck, non compos, non compos mentis, not all there, not right, odd, of unsound mind, off, paranoiac, paranoid, psychopath, psychopathic case, psychopathic personality, psychotic, queer, reasonless, schiz, schizo, schizoid, schizophrenic, schizy, senseless, sick, stark-mad, stark-staring mad, strange, tetched, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsane, unsettled, unsound, wandering, witless
Pronunciation
Etymology
Apocope of psychotic and psychopath.
Translations
Adjective
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Noun
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- Interlingua: psychopathe, psychotic
