noun
definition
A person who has a neurosis
adjective
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Affected with a neurosis.
definition
Overly anxious.
example
He is getting neurotic about time-keeping.
definition
Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.
Examples of neurotic in a Sentence
Donne was now in weak health, and in a highly neurotic condition.
The machine is quite eloquent, but I would be concerned by the needy and slightly neurotic tone.
His life with Joanna was rendered extremely unhappy by his infidelity and by her jealousy, which, working on a neurotic temperament, precipitated her insanity.
How did Dorothy become so neurotic -- what happened to her?
Im convinced if we worried about evey little ache and pain we'd all have neurotic bubs to handle!
Then I'll complain a lot, become neurotic, and generally be a pain in the ass for a while.
When they did the Church got neurotic and issued an edict.
Well, my writing partner is a self-centered tedious neurotic whose attempts at writing are the literary equivalent of Valium.
These people are not neurotic in the sense that they should fear nothing at all.
They considered that despite the apparently neurotic symptomatology presented by certain patients, they did not behave in the treatment like ordinary neurotics.
Also known as cavies, guinea pigs tend to be neurotic and can frighten quite easily.
This way he won't escalate into more neurotic behavior.
Impure beverages induce all the graver neurotic and visceral disorders in alcoholism; and, like fusel oil, furfurol and the essence of absinthe, are convulsent poisons.
It is believed that his disease was a malarial form of recurrent quinsy acting upon an extremely neurotic system.
Since Capricorn always plans ahead and can become almost neurotic regarding his fear of the future, a Cancer's domestic interest in life can provide her mate with a safe haven.
I was equally neurotic when I was pregnant with the other three children, gaining anywhere between 16 and 23 pounds with each pregnancy and then managing to lose the weight within two weeks.
The breathing becomes shallow, the drug killing, like nearly all neurotic poisons (alcohol, morphia, prussic acid, &c.), by paralysis of the respiratory centre, and the patient dying in a state of coma.
I'm naturally paranoid & more than a bit neurotic about such things.
They went from believing that Britain could do anything to an almost neurotic belief that Britain could do nothing.
For example, I am both highly neurotic and highly self-confident.
She is portrayed as a devoted mother on the show, but also as rather neurotic and lonely.
Carbolic acid is distinguished from all other acids so-called - except oxalic acid and hydrocyanic acid - in that it is a neurotic poison, having a marked action directly upon the nervous system.