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604. Neurotic - Adjectives - English Vocabulary - Neurotic / Neurosis

by 정이로운 잉여생활 2022. 12. 25.
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Neurotic : 신경증적인, 신경증에 걸린, 전전긍긍하는, 노이로제에 걸린, 신경증 환자, 노이로제 환자
Neurotically : 신경증적으로, 신경증에 걸려
Neurosis : 신경증, 강한공포증, 강한불안증, 노이로제, 과한염려증

 

 

1)
a neurotic is a person who behaves neurotically and suffer from a neurosis
if you are neurotic, you are over anxious about things
they worry too much about
I can be neurotic about time
we are going to be a minute late, a minute who cares
if you describe something as neurotic, you are syaing that they are too worried about things that really aren't of any real importance
they are over anxious 
a neurotic is always worrying about things
he is neurotic about catching Covid, he has been in his house for more than a year now
a neurotic, this is somebody who is very anxious about things
I think maybe in psychiatry, you would say that somebody who is neurotic is they are a bit emotionally unstable
a neurosis, it's a mental disorder which means you have a distorted perception of reality
a neurosis is less distorted than psychosis
but I don't think that psychiatrists use these word neurotic or neurosis anymore
somebody who is neurotic, they are emotionally unstable
they get really upset about little things 
they are too worried about stuff
we are all got our own little neuroses about different things
effectively neurosis, this means you are nervous and anxious
you are worried about things that other people consider unimportant
come on, stop being so neurotic
I am saying you are really frightened or really worried about things that I consider are unimportant
it's good to be cautious but being paranoid about everything, that is rather neurotic behavior
you are paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you, but being overly worried about people out to get you would be

neurotic
a neurotic individual, they are over anxious and highly strung, very jumpy
they are unstable, obsessive-compulsive, manic, hyper about things
he was neurotic about the food that he ate and that everything had to be clean
he was neurotic about going to restaurants becauce he was convinced that he was going to get food poisoning
to be obsessive-compulsive about that
be neurotically obsessive 
a neurotic, somebody who is really stressed-out about things but unreasonably stressed-out about it

 


Formality : 5.5

 

 

 

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