| Main Entry: | neurotic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mentally maladjusted |
Synonyms: |
aberrant, abnormal, anxious, basket case, bundle of nerves, choked, clutched, compulsive, deviant, disordered, disoriented, distraught, disturbed, erratic, hung up, hysteric, inhibited, manic, nervous, nervous wreck, obsessive, overwrought, psychoneurotic, unhealthy, unstable, upset, uptight, wired |
Antonyms: |
adjusted, balanced, sane, stable |
| Main Entry: | excitable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily upset or inspired |
Synonyms: |
agitable, alarmable, demonstrative, edgy, emotional, enthusiastic, fidgety, fierce, fiery, galvanic, hasty, high-strung, hot-headed, hot-tempered, hysterical, impatient, impetuous, impulsive, inflammable, intolerant, irascible, mercurial, moody, nervous, neurotic, overzealous, passionate, peevish, quick, quick-tempered, rash, reckless, restless, sensitive, short fused, skittish, susceptible, temperamental, testy, touchy, uncontrolled, uneasy, vehement, violent, volatile, volcanic |
Antonyms: |
calm, easy, easy-going, insensitive, laid-back, passive, unexcitable, uninspired |
| Main Entry: | hysterical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very upset, excited |
Synonyms: |
agitated, berserk, beside oneself, blazing, carried away, convulsive, crazed, crazy, delirious, distracted, distraught, emotional, fiery, frantic, frenzied, fuming, furious, impassioned, impetuous, in a fit, incensed, irrepressible, mad, maddened, nervous, neurotic, overwrought, panic-stricken, passionate, possessed, rabid, raging, rampant, raving, seething, spasmodic, tempestuous, turbulent, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, unnerved, unrestrained, uproarious, vehement, violent, wild, worked up |
Antonyms: |
calm, controlled, serene |
| Main Entry: | lunatic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is crazy, mad |
Synonyms: |
crackpot, crank, cuckoo, demoniac, flake, fruitcake, kook, lamebrain, loon, maniac, neurotic, nut*, paranoid, psycho, psychopath, psychotic, scatterbrain, schizophrenic, sociopathic |
Antonyms: |
sane |
| Main Entry: | maladjusted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | maladapted |
Synonyms: |
abnormal, disturbed*, messed up, muddled, neurotic, unfit, unstable |
| Main Entry: | nervous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | anxious, fearful |
Synonyms: |
afraid, agitated, annoyed, apprehensive, basket case, bothered, concerned, distressed, disturbed, edgy, excitable, fidgety, fitful, flustered, fussy*, hesitant, high-strung, hysterical, irritable, jittery, jumpy, nervy, neurotic, on edge, overwrought, querulous, restive, ruffled, sensitive, shaky*, shrinking, shy, skittish, snappish, solicitous, spooked, taut, tense, timid, timorous, troubled, twitchy, uneasy, unrestful, unstrung, upset, uptight, volatile, weak, wired, worried |
Antonyms: |
brave, calm, unafraid, unnervous, unworried |
| Main Entry: | overwrought |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhausted and excited |
Synonyms: |
affected, agitated, all shook up, beside oneself, crazy, distracted, emotional, excitable, fired-up, flipped out, frantic, freaked-out, high*, hot under collar, hot-and-bothered, hyper, in a state, keyed-up, nervous, neurotic, on edge, overexcited, overstrung, overworked, spent, steamed up, stirred, strung-out, tense, tired, uneasy, unstrung, uptight*, weary, wired, worked-up, worn, wound-up |
Antonyms: |
calm, collected, cool, rested, unruffled |
| Main Entry: | phobic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fearful |
Synonyms: |
afraid, anxious, apprehensive, discomposed, disquieted, disturbed, frightened, have cold feet, irrational, jittery, jumpy, nervous, neurotic, panicky, scared, shy, skittish, tense, worried |
| Main Entry: | temperamental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry most of the time; moody |
Synonyms: |
capricious, changeable, cussed, easily upset, emotional, erratic, excitable, explosive, fickle, fiery, froward, headstrong, high-strung, hotheaded, hyper, hypersensitive, impatient, in bad mood, inconsistent, irritable, mean, mercurial, neurotic, ornery, passionate, petulant, sensitive, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, uncertain, undependable, unpredictable, unreliable, unstable, variable, volatile, willful |
Antonyms: |
easygoing, happy, laid-back, peaceful, pleased |
| Main Entry: | touched |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crazy |
Synonyms: |
batty, bizarre, bonkers*, cuckoo, daft, eccentric, fanatic, flighty, insane, neurotic, not all there, not right, nuts, nutty, obsessed, out of one's mind, peculiar, pixilated, queer, unhinged |
Antonyms: |
ok, sane, well |