PARANOIDS Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

paranoid

adjective

variants also paranoidal

as in worried

having extreme or unreasonable fear or suspicion He was paranoid about break-ins and insisted on checking the locks himself every night.

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Recent Examples of paranoid Beginning in 2010, emergency rooms began seeing agitated patients who were violent, paranoid and psychotic after ingesting synthetic cathinones sold as bath salts. —

Jonathan Corum, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026 Hitchcock offers a solid condemnation of paranoid English nationalism on the brink of war, all under the guise of a compelling whodunit in one of the director's trademark locations, keeping all suspects in close quarters (and the true killer even closer). —

Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Apr. 2026 Safety awareness hasn’t gone anywhere, but the approach tends to be more strategic, rather than paranoid. —

Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2026 While there has always been a thriving industry of paranoid books and films, modern conspiracism has avenues of distribution and incentive that Cold War cranks and 19th-century pamphleteers could have only dreamed of. —

Mike Rothschild, Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for paranoid

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Around that time, Celeste’s family and friends became increasingly worried about her safety and whereabouts, urgently pleading for help from their neighbors, the public and police.

— Andi Babineau, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026
Two months into communicating with Niamh, not seeing any money flowing back into her crypto wallets, Holder became worried.

— Anna Schecter, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026