adjective
- Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis.
- Psychiatry. of or relating to psychosis: psychotic symptoms; psychotic delusion.
- (loosely) mentally unstable: The man who threw a stone through the convenience store window must be psychotic.
- intensely upset, anxious, or angry; crazy: My dad gets so psychotic when I come home even a little bit late.
noun
- Psychiatry. a person afflicted with psychosis.
- (loosely) someone who is mentally unstable: I always cross the street when I have to go past that homeless shelter; it’s full of psychotics.
- someone who exhibits extreme emotion or behavior: My brother turns into a complete psychotic whenever his team loses.
adjective
- of, relating to, or characterized by psychosis
noun
- a person experiencing psychosis
adj.1889, coined from psychosis, on the model of neurotic/neurosis, from Greek psykhe- “mind, soul” (see psyche). n.“a psychotic person,” 1901, from psychotic (adj.). adj.
- Of, relating to, or affected by psychosis.
n.
- A person affected by psychosis.