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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.

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  • adjective Pertaining to paranoia.
  • noun Somebody who has paranoia, a paranoid person.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person afflicted with paranoia

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Examples

  • … So-called paranoiac constitution … Hypertrophy of the Ego …

    Maigret has Scruples Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1958

  • In the same vein, Sean Hannity on his website ran a poll that played into the same kind of paranoiac posture exemplified by Keyes.

    Republican Party Sinking into Deep Abyss 2009

  • 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

  • Quote of the day: I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse.

    Speedlinking 7/24/07 William Harryman 2007

  • 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

  • We ask you to try to understand why we appear so 'paranoiac', as you call us.

    Northlight Hall, Adam, 1920- 1985

  • After the assassination of President Garfield by the "paranoiac"

    The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) Various

  • City Paranoid for sure creates a kind of 'paranoiac' sensation.

    Side-Line news feed 2009

  • Americans are sometimes "paranoiac" and believe all the world hates them, which is of course wrong.

    Palestine Blogs aggregator 2009

  • Leipzig, 1896) have explained "paranoiac" conditions by a laming of the association-organ.

    The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

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