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schizophrenic


adjective

  1. Psychiatry. of or relating to schizophrenia: Not all of these patients are schizophrenic.
  2. 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 Psychiatry.

  1. a person with schizophrenia: Schizophrenics are often unable to focus on certain objects.

adjective

  1. exhibiting symptoms of schizophrenia
  2. informal, offensive experiencing or maintaining contradictory attitudes, emotions, etc

noun

  1. a schizophrenic person

adj.1912; see schizophrenia + -ic. Also from 1912 as a noun, “schizophrenic person.” Transferred adjectival sense of “contradictory, inconsistent” is by 1955. adj.

  1. Of, relating to, or affected by schizophrenia.

n.

  1. One who is affected with schizophrenia.
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