Neurotic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É’tɪk

Full definition of neurotic

Adjective

1. Affected with a neurosis.
2. (informal) Overly anxious.
• He is getting neurotic about time-keeping
• 1907, w, The Younger Set Chapter 6, “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 speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, … !”
• 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, “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.”
3. (medicine) Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.

Noun

1. A person who has a neurosis

Anagrams

• countrie, unerotic