Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A paranoid.
- adjective Of, relating to, or resembling paranoia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A person affected with paranoia.
- adjective (Med.) Of or pertaining to paranoia; affected with, or characteristic of, paranoia; paranoid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to
paranoia . - noun Somebody who has
paranoia , aparanoid person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person afflicted with paranoia
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Examples
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… So-called paranoiac constitution … Hypertrophy of the Ego …
Maigret has Scruples Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1958
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In the same vein, Sean Hannity on his website ran a poll that played into the same kind of paranoiac posture exemplified by Keyes.
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Delvaux's major influences include De Chirico, Dalí and fellow Belgian René Magritte, though his work has none of the shock value of Magritte and none of Dalí's famous 'paranoiac' method.
Archive 2007-08-01 JE 2007
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Quote of the day: I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse.
Speedlinking 7/24/07 William Harryman 2007
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Delvaux's major influences include De Chirico, Dalí and fellow Belgian René Magritte, though his work has none of the shock value of Magritte and none of Dalí's famous 'paranoiac' method.
Surrealism and Anatomical Waxes JE 2007
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We ask you to try to understand why we appear so 'paranoiac', as you call us.
Northlight Hall, Adam, 1920- 1985
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After the assassination of President Garfield by the "paranoiac"
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City Paranoid for sure creates a kind of 'paranoiac' sensation.
Side-Line news feed 2009
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Americans are sometimes "paranoiac" and believe all the world hates them, which is of course wrong.
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Leipzig, 1896) have explained "paranoiac" conditions by a laming of the association-organ.
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