PARANOIAC Synonyms: 104 Similar and Opposite Words

paranoiac

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Adjective

The situation became murkier as French lawyer Suzane Blum took increasing control over the affairs of Simpson, who had become increasingly paranoid and befuddled.

— Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 7 Oct. 2026
The bald guy lecturing me on how to get the money looked real enough, but the question of his true being kept rattling around my increasingly paranoid mind.

— Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of paranoid

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The professionalization worked, but at the expense of the site’s internal culture, Cooke argues, as generous eccentrics were displaced by neurotic lovers of rules.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
Ludwig is the twitchy, neurotic, charming character that Mitchell was born to play.

— Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of neurotic

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The 911 caller told police that their schizophrenic son had struck her 69-year-old husband on the head with a hammer.

— WCCO Staff, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
What’s emerged is a schizophrenic marketplace where art and commerce have fused into The Substance.

— Joseph Kahn, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of schizophrenic

Adjective

The artist adopts a schizoid persona, with multiple voices flowing out of him, and swerves between lucid social criticism—about the history of slavery or of higher education—and total gibberish.

— Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
The idea of a schizoid Lady M is not entirely without appeal, but despite strong performances across the board, the work runs aground fast.

— Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2024

Definition of schizoid

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Mental health experts have voiced concerns about chatbots’ sycophancy, lack of clinical nuance, and ability to reinforce delusional beliefs.

— Andrew R. Chow, Time, 22 Oct. 2026
What helped turn this childhood quirk into a pilot script was a little research into Capgras syndrome, one hell of a delusional disorder that affects the rare patient who firmly believes a family member or close friend is an impostor.

— Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of delusional

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Genetic predispositions to sensory overload, which is often experienced by people with autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or obsessive-compulsive disorder, can put someone on this path early in life.

— Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
During this period of my life, one that was entirely consumed by obsessive-compulsive disorder, virtually every e-mail that landed in my inbox had the same effect on me.

— Andrew Lipstein, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of obsessive-compulsive

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What follows is a heady mixture of grief, desire, fantasy, and dance, complete with elaborate musical interludes and a delirious homage to Dirty Dancing.

— Lisa Wong Macabasco, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
The new mountaineering movies are delirious vicarious cinema, employing technological means and a filmmaking bravado that comes with them that would have been unimaginable three or four decades ago.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of delirious

Adjective

But manipulation of material and audience by a filmmaker whose topic is a manipulative, criminally convicted, and arguably sociopathic person is another matter.

— Torie Bosch, STAT, 24 Oct. 2026
Underneath that façade was a sociopathic white supremacist neo-Nazi filled with hatred, fantasizing about mass murder nearly every day.

— Asal Rezaei, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of sociopathic

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