Englishneurotic
adjective
1 the treatment of anxiety in neurotic patients:
mentally ill, mentally disturbed, mentally deranged, unstable, unbalanced, maladjusted, psychoneurotic;
psychopathic, phobic.
▷antonyms stable, well balanced.
2 a neurotic, self-obsessed control freak:
overanxious, anxious, nervous, tense, highly strung, jumpy, oversensitive, paranoid;
obsessive, compulsive, phobic, fixated, hysterical, overwrought, manic, irrational;
British nervy;
informal twitchy;
British, informal stressy.
▷antonyms calm, laid-back, level-headed.
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