Associations to the word «Neurotic»

Wiktionary

NEUROTIC, adjective. Affected with a neurosis.
NEUROTIC, adjective. (informal) Overly anxious.
NEUROTIC, adjective. (medicine) Useful in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.
NEUROTIC, noun. A person who has a neurosis

Dictionary definition

NEUROTIC, noun. A person suffering from neurosis.
NEUROTIC, adjective. Characteristic of or affected by neurosis; "neurotic disorder"; "neurotic symptoms".
NEUROTIC, adjective. Affected with emotional disorder.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats