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schizophrenic
[ skit-suh-fren-ik ]
adjective
- Psychiatry. of or relating to schizophrenia:
Not all of these patients are schizophrenic.
- of or relating to conflicting or inconsistent elements; characterized by unusual disparity:
It wavers from comedy to thriller to docudrama—a totally schizophrenic plot!
noun
- a person with schizophrenia:
Schizophrenics are often unable to focus on certain objects.
Word History and Origins
Origin of schizophrenic1
Example Sentences
Paranoid schizophrenic, chemical imbalance, with acute psychotic episodes, and she didn’t know that I had to be hospitalized.
They show up when a schizophrenic man is setting fires to his neighbor’s furniture, and when a 13-year-old finds her father hanging from a basement pipe.
Meanwhile, back in London, Olivia’s adoptive father starts to wonder if a new schizophrenic patient might be his daughter’s long-lost twin brother.
Public defenders, however, produced mental health and criminal records from New Mexico showing that Moore had been diagnosed much earlier in life as a paranoid schizophrenic.
Turning from biblical interpretation to psychiatry, the actor added, “I think the man was likely schizophrenic.”
In North Carolina, they let a 54-year-old untreated schizophrenic die of thirst after 35 days in solitary confinement.
The anecdotes all reveal something uncomfortably schizophrenic about our world…but even so: what has gotten into this woman?
When it comes to environmental protection, the Obama administration has seemed nothing less than schizophrenic.
What if Charlize Theron was brought in to do a remake of the Sally Field schizophrenic classic Sybil?
He begins jabbering like a schizophrenic parrot reading a Sanskrit dictionary backward!
I am (to state it in politically incorrectly language) a schizophrenic.
Therapeutic running also seems to benefit schizophrenic patients.
There are good reasons for believing specific schizophrenic thought-disturbance to be the result of a complex.
Like the schizophrenic, Martin was living in a little world that was cut off from the actual physical world around his body.
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