| Library / English Dictionary |
SCHIZOPHRENIC
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("schizophrenic" is a kind of...):
psycho; psychotic; psychotic person (a person afflicted with psychosis)
Derivation:
schizophrenic (suffering from some form of schizophrenia)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Suffering from some form of schizophrenia
Example:
schizophrenic patients
Classified under:
Similar:
insane (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement)
Derivation:
schizophrenia (any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact)
schizophrenic (someone who is afflicted with schizophrenia)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characteristic of schizophrenia
Synonyms:
schizoid; schizophrenic
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
schizophrenia (any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact)
Derivation:
schizophrenia (any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact)
