Synonyms of neurotic

neurotic

adjective

as in paranoid

having or showing a very nervous or disordered state of mind

Her neurotic tendencies tend to manifest in her obsessive need for cleanliness.

Our dog is a bit neurotic; she tends to panic around strangers.

Related Words

• paranoid
• unstable
• worried
• nervous
• psychotic
• anxious
• restless
• schizophrenic
• schizoid
• disturbed
• obsessive-compulsive
• irrational
• paranoiac
• disordered
• delusional
• delusionary
• sociopathic
• obsessed
• delirious
• aberrant
• high-strung
• uptight
• psychopathic
• overanxious
• eccentric
• uneasy
• demented
• unsettled
• unreasonable
• bothered
• distressed
• maniacal
• jittery
• psycho
• jumpy
• crazed
• deranged
• unquiet
• strange
• unbalanced
• skittish
• mental
• mad
• insane
• oddball
• tense
• nutty
• unhinged
• batty
• odd
• non compos mentis
• crazy
• daft
• nuts
• unsound
• loco
• queer
• pixilated
• bonkers
• brainsick
• fixated
• bats
• wud

Dissimilar Words

• relaxed
• relieved
• composed
• possessed
• collected
• placid
• equal
• peaceful
• rational
• level
• smooth
• sedate
• undisturbed
• serene
• unperturbed
• tranquil
• cool
• reasonable
• unruffled
• unneurotic
• untroubled
• limpid
• lucid
• clear
• sane
• unshaken
• sound
• together
• tranquilized
• self-possessed
• balanced
• unworried
• coolheaded
• self-composed
• recollected
• compos mentis
• uncrazy

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of neurotic

Landing a job as the nanny to neurotic Ray (Dakota Fanning), the free-spirited ‘It’ girl learns how to grow up with some help from the young girl. —Glenn Garner, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2026

Of the many incarnations of the narcissist, there is the braggart, and there is also the neurotic. —Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025

Vanya is a closeted gay man who shuns intimacy and Sonia is a neurotic spinster who feels unnoticed and unloved. —Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025

And Craig Waterman, the marketing executive from the 2024 film Friendship, took Robinson into new territory with a darker and more pathetic take on the same neurotic type. —Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2025