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Webster 1913 Edition
Neurotic
Neu-rot′ic
,Adj.
[Gr.
νεῦρον
nerve.] 1.
Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous;
as, a
. neurotic
disease2.
Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.
Neu-rot′ic
,Noun.
1.
A disease seated in the nerves.
2.
(Med.)
Any toxic agent whose action is mainly directed to the great nerve centers.
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Neurotics
as a class include all those poisons whose main action is upon the brain and spinal cord. They may be divided into three orders: (a) Cerebral neurotics, or those which affect the brain only. (b) Spinal neurotics, or tetanics, those which affect the spinal cord. (c) Cerebro-spinal neurotics, or those which affect both brain and spinal cord. Webster 1828 Edition
Neurotic
NEUROTIC
,Adj.
NEUROTIC
,Noun.
Definition 2024
neurotic
neurotic
English
Adjective
neurotic (not comparable)
- Affected with a neurosis.
- (informal) Overly anxious.
- He is getting neurotic about time-keeping.
- 1907, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “chapter VI”, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 4241346:
- “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, […], the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, […]!”
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “chapter VIII”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
- “You did come down a wallop, didn't you? How art thou fallen from heaven, oh Lucifer, son of the morning, I said to myself. You're so terribly neurotic, Bertie. You must try to be less jumpy. What you need is a good nerve tonic.”
- (medicine) Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.
Translations
Overanxious
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Noun
neurotic (plural neurotics)
- A person who has a neurosis
Translations
person who has a neurosis
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