Crossword-Solution: NEUROTIC
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Neurotic | a. | Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous; as, a neurotic disease. |
| Neurotic | a. | Uself in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves. |
| Neurotic | n. | A disease seated in the nerves. |
| Neurotic | n. | Any toxic agent whose action is mainly directed to the great nerve centers. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NEUROTIC | anagram | UNEROTIC |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with NEUROTIC (5)
Born of a delicate and overworked mother, and an impulsive, hard, imaginative father, who did not look with favor upon her coming into the world, Louise was from childhood a neurotic, one of the race of over-sensitive women that in later days industrialism was to bring in such great numbers into the world.
Thus, excessive pietism is a frequent concomitant of excessive sexual passion; this, though notably the case with women, is common enough with men of unduly neurotic temperaments.
You've fussed so much with these fool novels and books and all this highbrow junk----You like to argue!” It ended, a quarter of an hour later, in his calling her a “neurotic” before he turned away and pretended to sleep.
Borderland insanity, crankiness, insane temperament, loss of mental balance, psychopathic degeneration (to use a few of the many synonyms by which it has been called), has certain peculiarities and liabilities which, when combined with a superior quality of intellect in an individual, make it more probable that he will make his mark and affect his age, than if his temperament were less neurotic.
Raymond and Vulpian observed a lady of neurotic type whose hair during a severe paroxysm of neuralgia following a mental strain changed color in five hours over the entire scalp except on the back and sides; most of the hair changed from black to red, but some to quite white, and in two days all the red hair became white and a quantity fell off.
Quotes with NEUROTIC (3)
I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalitie…
A person who has not been completely alienated, who has remained sensitive and able to feel, who has not lost the sense of dignity, who is not yet "for sale", who can still suffer over the suffering of others, who has not acquired fully the having mode of existence - briefly, a person who has remained a person and not become a thing - cannot help feeling lonely, powerless, isolated in present-day society. He cannot help doubting himself and his own convictions, if not his san…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 19 times in crossword archives (1960–2022).